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Syntax

This is a keyword-based search engine. When entering multiple search terms, the search engine will attempt to match them against documents where the terms occur in close proximity.

Search terms can be excluded with a hyphen.

While the search engine at present does not allow full text search, quotes can be used to specifically search for names or terms in the title. Using quotes will also cause the search engine to be as literal as possible in interpreting the query.

Parentheses can be used to add terms to the query without giving weight to the terms when ranking the search results.

Samples

soup -chicken: Look for keywords that contain soup, but not chicken.
"keyboard": Look for pages containing the exact word keyboard, not keyboards or the like.
"steve mcqueen": Look for pages containing the exact words steve mcqueen in that order, with no words in between.
apology (plato): Look for pages containing apology and plato, but only rank them based on their relevance to apology

Special Keywords

Several special keywords are supported by the search engine.

Keyword	Meaning
site:example.com	Display site information about example.com
site:example.com keyword	Search example.com for keyword
site:.example.com keyword*	Search example.com and its subdomains for keyword
browse:example.com	Show similar websites to example.com
ip:127.0.0.1	Search documents hosted at 127.0.0.1
links:example.com	Search documents linking to example.com
tld:edu keyword	Search documents with the top level domain edu.
?tld:edu keyword	Prefer but do not require results with the top level domain edu. This syntax is also possible for links:..., ip:... and site:...
q>5	The amount of javascript and modern features is at least 5 (on a scale 0 to 25)
q<5	The amount of javascript and modern features is at most 5 (on a scale 0 to 25)
year>2005	(beta) The document was ostensibly published in or after 2005
year=2005	(beta) The document was ostensibly published in 2005
year<2005	(beta) The document was ostensibly published in or before 2005
rank>50	The ranking of the website is at least 50 in a span of 1 - 255
rank<50	The ranking of the website is at most 50 in a span of 1 - 255
count>10	The search term must appear in at least 10 results form the domain
count<10	The search term must appear in at most 10 results from the domain
format:html5	Filter documents using the HTML5 standard. This is typically modern websites.
format:xhtml	Filter documents using the XHTML standard
format:html123	Filter documents using the HTML standards 1, 2, and 3. This is typically very old websites.
generator:wordpress	Filter documents with the specified generator, in this case wordpress
file:zip	Filter documents containing a link to a zip file (most file-endings work)
file:audio	Filter documents containing a link to an audio file
file:video	Filter documents containing a link to a video file
file:archive	Filter documents containing a link to a compressed archive
file:document	Filter documents containing a link to a document
-special:media	Filter out documents with audio or video tags
-special:scripts	Filter out documents with javascript
-special:affiliate	Filter out documents with likely Amazon affiliate links
-special:tracking	Filter out documents with analytics or tracking code
-special:cookies	Filter out documents with cookies

Results Legend

The estimated relevance of the search result is indicated using the color saturation of the color of the search result, as well as the order the results are presented.

Information about the position of the match is indicated using a dot matrix in the bottom bar of each search result. Each dot represents four sentences, and are presented in an order of top-to-bottom, left-to-right.

⣿⠃⠀⠀ — The terms occur heavily toward the beginning of the document.

⠠⠀⡄⠁ — The terms occur sparsely throughout the document.

⠀⠁⠀⠀ — The terms occur only in a single sentence.

Potentially problems with the document are presented with a warning triangle, e.g. ⚠ 3. Desktop users can mouse-over this to get a detailed breakdown.

Policies

This website complies with the GDPR by not collecting any personal information, and with the EU Cookie Directive by not using cookies. More Information.

Contact

Reach me at kontakt@marginalia.nu, @MarginaliaNu on twitter.

Open Source

The search engine is open source with an AGPL license. The sources can be perused at https://git.marginalia.nu/.

Data Sources

IP geolocation is sourced from the IP2Location LITE data available from https://lite.ip2location.com/ under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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