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Marginalia Search vs Search My Site: catalog facts
Marginalia Search	Search My Site
Free Free to use, with the index and crawler source published under the AGPL.	Freemium Searching is free; site owners get a free basic listing and can trial a full listing.
Web	Web, Self-hosted
Surfaces small, non-commercial and text-heavy websites Discovery tools for browsing beyond direct queries	Index limited to vetted personal and independent sites Ad-free, with ad-free pages ranked higher
Deliberately narrow index, not a replacement for a general search engine Small independent project with limited resources	Small index aimed at personal writing, not general queries Self-hosting needs five Docker components including Solr and Postgres
Web application	Web application, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: AGPL-3.0
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 October 2, 2026

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