A non-profit, open-source search engine with its own index, curated by volunteers. Results feel nothing like the big engines, which is the point.
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Mwmbl sits in Odd Search Engines under Learn, filed as a minute.
About this category: Reverse image search, niche indexes, and search engines built on a premise other than popularity. What the web looks like when ranked differently.
Yes. Mwmbl is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Mwmbl without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Mwmbl as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
Searches around a billion openly licensed images and audio files, with the licence terms attached to every single result.
Reverse image search tuned for illustration: hand it a cropped screenshot and it names the artist and the original post.
Indexes only independent personal websites whose owners submitted them. No content farms, because there is nothing there to farm.
Search engine for internet-connected devices rather than pages: webcams, routers and industrial kit nobody meant to publish.
Fictional US national park built inside a colossal living organism, documented entirely as tourist brochures and incident reports.
Live tracking for thousands of satellites, with pass predictions for your postcode and a map of everything above you right now.
Type a surname and get where it came from, what it originally meant and where in the world it still clusters.
Georeferenced Ordnance Survey sheets you can fade against satellite imagery to see exactly what got demolished.
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