General Directories

Broad web directories

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Search My Site searchmysite.net

Boutique search engine for personal websites and digital gardens. User-submitted, human-moderated.

Marginalia Search marginalia-search.com

Search engine for the indie web. Finds "grass-fed, free-range HTML" - small, old, obscure sites that big search ignores.

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IMDb imdb.com

The Internet Movie Database. Comprehensive information on films, TV, and cast.

MetaFilter metafilter.com

Community weblog since 1999. Curated links and thoughtful discussion.

AlternativeTo alternativeto.net

Crowd-sourced software recommendations. Find open source alternatives to any application.

The Useless Web theuselessweb.com

Button that takes you to random useless websites. Celebrate the weird, creative, pointless corners of the internet.

Marginalia Search search.marginalia.nu

An independent search engine that favors text-heavy, non-commercial websites. Surfaces the small web that Google ignores.

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Wiby wiby.me

Search engine for the classic web. Returns results from hand-picked personal and hobbyist websites.

Curlie curlie.org

The largest human-edited directory of the web. Successor to DMOZ with thousands of volunteer editors.

href.cool href.cool

Curated links to weird and wonderful corners of the internet. A different kind of discovery.

Indieseek indieseek.xyz

A human-curated directory focused on independent and personal websites. Fighting against the corporate web.