Outside the grasp of social media nad the commercial web sits a broad community of people with personal websites and blogs. [...] The community has received many names:

• The Small Web contrasts this community with the “Big Web”, valuing personal ownership over scale.
• The IndieWeb also values personal ownership of websites, providing numerous technical standards and proposals to help facilitate interaction between different people’s blogs.
• Web 1.0 rejects the hype of “Web 2.0” apps, using simple, straightforward technologies to build websites.
• The Blogosphere is an old term that’s been around since 1999, referencing the community of bloggers.
• The Web Revival is the concept shared by many that this community has been growing and making a comeback.

This web relies on the hyperlinks.

There is the classic web Discovery with Blogrolls, Webrings and Feeds.

and search engines that are wonderful tools to find a specific thing, but they shouldn't be the only discovery tool, because they only show a subset of the available information.

That's why Clew highlights the small independent websites "to make discovering what real people think easier". Other search engines are doing this:

• Marginalia
• Unobtanium
• Stract
• Lieu focus on webrings.
• Mwmbl - curated by the users.
• Search My Site crawls user-submitted sites
• Wiby for websites using older technology, great for use on vintage computers.
• YaCy - a decentralized search engine
• PeARS - A search engine that can be run in the browser, without needing a server.
• Mojeek - an independent search engine

Another idea to bring back a healthier web is to provide blogrolls in the OPML format directly: https://opml.org/blogroll.opml.
Jamesg.blog created the Artemis Link Graph web extension. It lists the web pages authored by people you follow that link to the page you are viewing.

All of these has one limitation: much of the independent web today is made up of people with similar interests, in technology in particular.

A minimalistic UI and a minimal page weight

An HTML and CSS only version of the search engine.

Qwant and Ecosia will start to use the Search Trusted API Accees Network (STANN)

Let's see

Someone shares its lists on Github.

Ahmia, Clew, DuckDuckGo, Monocles Search, FrogFind

Decentralized search engine & automatized press reviews

• Explore the press with no middlemen between the newspapers and your web browser.
• Discover millions of results within seconds and explore the last ones in Firefox via this addon.
• Schedule searches, select your press review and export it in a few clicks.

An index of the web!

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High quality GIFs

The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.

Google without AI: this is a wrapper around google. The query contains exactly &udm=14 to avoid AI.