11 votes

Alexandria Search is a open source ad free nonprofit web search engine

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    Ephemere
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    Given that the search page was posted without commentary - are there any particular kinds of searches which work especially well on alexandria? A number of queries I attempted returned no results.

    Given that the search page was posted without commentary - are there any particular kinds of searches which work especially well on alexandria? A number of queries I attempted returned no results.

    10 votes
    1. wiki_me
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      After a posted it on reddit, people reported it sometimes does not work, someone opened an issue about it here.

      After a posted it on reddit, people reported it sometimes does not work, someone opened an issue about it here.

      1 vote
  2. cmccabe
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    The ‘about’ page says Alexandria uses Common Crawl data. If you’re not familiar with Common Crawl, it’s pretty interesting.

    The ‘about’ page says Alexandria uses Common Crawl data. If you’re not familiar with Common Crawl, it’s pretty interesting.

    Common Crawl is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing a copy of the internet to internet researchers, companies and individuals at no cost for the purpose of research and analysis.

    4 votes
  3. Immortal
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    This website is so refreshing to use and look at. I really love simplicity and efficiency. Will bookmark and use to see what the results are like, thanks for the share!

    This website is so refreshing to use and look at. I really love simplicity and efficiency.

    Will bookmark and use to see what the results are like, thanks for the share!

    2 votes