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# System prepended metadata

title: Search

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Search Research
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## Demo: Community Associations Search

Using the open source [Stract](https://github.com/StractOrg/stract) search engine, we built our own small search engine using [Common Crawl](https://commoncrawl.org/) web crawl data from a list of [community-association websites](/community-associations) in Victoria and Saanich.

* Try it out here: [https://6kgrwaaeaaaa.vichex.ca/](https://6kgrwaaeaaaa.vichex.ca/)

Some sample searches: "gorge", "festival", "harm reduction", "council"

Read the [blog post](https://6kgrunw3nwza.vichex.ca/posts/2025-07-17-search-experiment/) about how we made it!

## Open Source Search Engines

### Yacy

* [yacy.net](https://yacy.net/)
* [GitHub: yacy/yacy_search_server](https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server)
* [The story of Yacy Grid](https://community.searchlab.eu/t/the-story-of-yacy-grid/48)
* [susper.com](https://susper.com/)

### Mwmbl

* [mwmbl.org](https://mwmbl.org/)
* [GitHub: mwmbl/mwmbl](https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl)

### Stract

* [stract.com](https://stract.com/)
* [GitHub: StractOrg/stract](https://github.com/StractOrg/stract)

### Marginalia

* [marginalia-search.com](https://marginalia-search.com/)
* [GitHub: MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch](https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch)

## Navigation

* [Back to VicHex.ca Welcome Page](https://6kgrvlbslccq.vichex.ca/)

## Source document

* [HackMD](https://hackmd.io/uYdFzJq2Te6yH8pSas9LsQ)
* [GitHub](https://github.com/hexcamp/hackmd-notes/blob/main/vichex-search-experiment/index.md)

Publish-to: [6kgruqaeaaaa.vichex.ca](https://6kgruqaeaaaa.vichex.ca/)
