The Search Engine Map

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This was pretty neat! LOL at everything being connected and then way off to the left is poor Yep, feeling absolutely no love.

This makes the whole discussion about “Do not use <search-engine-a> because they’re bad, use <search-engine-b> instead” so obviously useless. Everyone is dealing with basically everyone else in this space and people should, for the most part, stop pretending.

I don’t think the map is entirely correct though. I might be mistaken but Brave has an independent index and I think Kagi is also using them as part of their results. So maybe this graph is not up to date.

Still, it’s quite clear that the search world is basically Google, Microsoft, and then Microsoft/Google wearing different trench coats.

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I didn’t see marginalia search there! It’s not big, but it does have its own crawler :)

Yeah https://wiby.me is also missing. That is definitely not a complete list of what’s available out there.

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Looks like Mojeek is developing this. They should be receptive for updates.