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Search My Site

Indexes only independent personal websites whose owners submitted them. No content farms, because there is nothing there to farm.

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How to get the most from it

Search My Site sits in Odd Search Engines under Learn, filed as coffee break.

  • Set aside five to fifteen minutes and give it your proper attention.
  • It works on a phone or a desktop, so open it on whatever is nearest.
  • It works with the sound off, so it is fine on a train or in a quiet office.
  • No account needed — you can start without signing up.
  • Go in expecting something brainy and useful.

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.

Good for

  • Filling a coffee break properly
  • Giving your brain a workout
  • Getting something practical done
  • A quiet break at your desk
  • Killing time on your phone
  • Trying it with zero commitment

Search My Site: quick answers

Is Search My Site free?

Yes. Search My Site is free to use and needs no account.

Do I need an account to use Search My Site?

No. You can use Search My Site without signing up for anything.

Does Search My Site work on a phone?

Yes. Search My Site works on phones as well as desktop browsers.

Is Search My Site safe for work?

Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.

How long does Search My Site take?

We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.

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  • Non-commercial web search indexing only pages carrying no ads or trackers at all. A very small and very different internet.

  • Reverse image search that finds the oldest copy of a picture rather than visually similar ones. The tool for tracing where a photo began.

  • Search engine for hand-made pages in the spirit of the early web, with a surprise-me button that behaves exactly like 1998.

Same mood: brainy

All brainy sites
  • You are a colony ship AI choosing which disasters to absorb, and every run ends with a summary of how badly humanity settled.

  • Brown University's visual introduction to probability and statistics, one animated chapter per concept.

  • The original semantic-distance guessing game, noticeably harder than its descendants and considerably more humbling.

  • Word association against a neural net: type anything related to the highlighted block and it clears. Built by Google's research team.

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