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Marginalia Search vs Mojeek: catalog facts
Marginalia Search	Mojeek
Free Free to use, with the index and crawler source published under the AGPL.	Free Free to search; an API is also offered.
Web	Web
Surfaces small, non-commercial and text-heavy websites Discovery tools for browsing beyond direct queries	Own independent index rather than Google or Bing results No-tracking privacy policy
Deliberately narrow index, not a replacement for a general search engine Small independent project with limited resources	Smaller index than the major engines, so some queries return fewer results Closed source
Web application	Web application
Open source	Closed source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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