What it does
Mwmbl is a nonprofit open-source web search project with its own index and community curation. The project states that it operates without advertisements or tracking.
Mwmbl builds its own centralized index using volunteer crawling and community-shaped ranking. The project acknowledges that its index is much smaller than commercial engines, making it another discovery route with different coverage.
The curation guide explains how contributors change results: approve a relevant result with the tick control to move it upward, or use Add new to enter a URL. Curated queries and their changes are stored and shown on the main page. The current guide limits curation to English, so participation is a public contribution workflow with its own scope.
Strengths
- The project has its own index and community-curated rankings.
- Source is published under AGPL-3.0.
Watch out for
- The project explicitly describes its index as much smaller than commercial indexes.
Best for
- People who want to explore a community-supported independent search index
Sources
- GitHub - mwmbl/mwmbl: An open source, non-profit web search engine · GitHub (Oct 26, 2026)
- Mwmbl search-result curation guidelines (Oct 26, 2026)