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Marginalia Search

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Marginalia Search is a noncommercial niche search engine focusing on old websites, personal websites, and blogs that suffer crippling discoverability problems in today's fiercely SEO-optimized lanscape. Operated by Marginalia.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is Marginalia Search?

Marginalia Search is a web crawler operated by Marginalia. Marginalia Search is a noncommercial niche search engine focusing on old websites, personal websites, and blogs that suffer crippling discoverability problems in today's fiercely SEO-optimized lanscape. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Marginalia Search

Operator

Marginalia

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Marginalia Search crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Marginalia as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Marginalia Search

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for search.marginalia.nu in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Marginalia Search from crawling your entire site
User-agent: search.marginalia.nu
Disallow: /

# Allow Marginalia Search full access
User-agent: search.marginalia.nu
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows search.marginalia.nu. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Marginalia's documentation.