About mymango

A small, opinionated search engine for engineers, builders, hackers and the curious — the independent web the big engines stopped surfacing.

What’s in the index

Every site here was put on a list on purpose: personal blogs, project docs, research groups, hardware and RF hackers, low-level and Linux writing, security and opsec practitioners, AI researchers, and the wider small web. There is no open crawl of the whole internet. If a site is not on the list, it is not here — and we would rather tell you that than pad the page.

Right now: 17 187 pages from 11 772 curated sites, plus 3 313 recent tech & indie news items.

How ranking works

• Text first. All of your words must match before anything looser is considered; when we relax a query, the page says so.
• Trust is per site, earned from curation. Sites listed by several independent curators rank above sites listed once. Vendor marketing and affiliate pages are discounted.
• Diversity. One site cannot take over a results page; extra hits fold into “more from this site”.
• No ads, no paid placement, no personalisation, no LLM on the query path. Open “Why this result” on any card to see the signals behind its position.

Verticals

Web is the main index. Repos shows code repositories with stars, language and last push. Blogs is a feed of fresh posts (last 14 days) from the same curated sites. Small Web narrows Web to personal and independent sites. For world news, use Mango News.

Thanks

The seed lists are built on other people’s careful curation, including:

• the Kagi Small Web list (MIT licence),
• ooh.directory,
• the authors and maintainers of the many awesome-* lists we drew from,
• and the independent search projects whose public write-ups shaped our thinking — Marginalia, Stract and searchmysite. Our code is our own.

Removal & contact

If you run a site and want it removed, or want its listing corrected, see the bot page for robots.txt opt-out (honoured on the next fetch). A contact mailbox for takedowns will be published on this page before the crawler runs at scale.