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Do you know some #WebSearch that searches the #SmallWeb or #IndependentWeb, something beside the big players?

E.g. I want to get opinions about whether to use or not use assert() within PHP. And I bet there are a couple of posts out there with pros and cons and opinions on general. I'm looking for them.

But general searches only return docs, StackOverflow, etc. …

in reply to Konafets

I couldn't find anything related on their site. Looks like this is a Mac exclusive Desktop Application? Maybe I should have been more clear. I want a web search within my browser. Also best would be “for free” as I don't need it that often and don't want to go the way I tried with #Kagi where I pay way too much for the one to three searches I do per month.

But thanks for pointing that out, it might be helpful for others.

#Kagi
in reply to Daniel Siepmann

Thats correct. Its an Mac-only meta search engine. You can define a variety of sources beside the big players.
in reply to aRubes

Will give it another try in some hours / days. Right now it doesn't work, also the status page seems to be broken as well: https://status.marginalia.nu/
in reply to foreverliketh.is

Thanks, all cool suggestions. But I fear Kagi is the closest. I once subscribed but don't like their pricing. I only have a handful of searches per month, and "$5 /per month
300 searches per month" doesn't match. Using different mails to get 100 searches over and over also wouldn't be nice. I would be happy with a "pay as you go" as they had last year.

All other suggestions don't bring results for my concrete example. I fear they have very small indexes.

Would be cool to see a "independent web" search engine that would not index way too huge pages like StackOverflow or Wikipedia.

in reply to Daniel Siepmann

@foreverliketh.is maybe a searx instance using all the mentioned engines would also be a possible way.