mwmbl - the user-curated search engine

Mwmbl is a community-built, non-profit search engine that puts privacy and user control first. It offers a truly different search experience—one where the results are shaped not by corporate interests but by real people.

Key Features:

• Ad-Free & Privacy-Respecting: No ads, no tracking, and no commercial interests—just a search engine built with the users in mind.
• User-Curated Results: Instead of relying on algorithms, search results are refined and tuned by the community.
• Community-Driven Crawling: The engine relies on volunteer-run crawlers. Although the index currently holds around 500 million unique URLs, there's massive potential.
• Ambitious Growth Goals: mwmbl plans to reach 10 billion unique URLs by the end of 2025 and 100 billion by 2026, at which point it should be a true alternative to commercial search engines.
• Open-Source: The project is fully open-source, meaning you can contribute to the code and help resolve issues to push the project forward.

How to Get Involved:

Right now, the search quality is pretty rough, but that’s where you can make an impact:

• Contribute to the Index:
  • Install the Firefox Extension: Once installed, it crawls the web on your behalf.
  • Run the CLI Script: An even better option would be to use your spare computing power by running the command line crawler.
• Join the Community: The main community is on Matrix for non-development related discussions.
• Code Contributions: Check out the project on Codeberg. You can contribute code, report issues, or suggest new features to help make the search results better.
• Financial Contributions: Donate some money towards hosting costs and supporting volunteers.