Marginalia Search
recommended: allow
Operated by Marginalia
search engine
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.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
search.marginalia.nu
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Marginalia Search:
Allow full access
User-agent: search.marginalia.nu
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: search.marginalia.nu
Disallow: /
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