2024-03-09 14:16
There has been a fair amount of small changes and additions at Indieseek.xyz. New Listings: The truth is I don’t get that many many new submissions for the directory. So most new… Read More
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2024-02-18 20:13
Joe Jenett, owner of iwebthings directory made a new button (below) for Indieseek.xyz! I have zero graphics skills, so it was very nice of Joe to make a new one. Unlike the old one I m… Read More
2024-02-17 19:38
Are you looking to build more non-commercial websites? Perhaps you have created your own personal website and you’re looking for a new project? How abouut building an: expe… Read More
2024-02-16 16:44
The good folks at 32-Bit.Cafe have launched a new Discourse based forum community. If you wish to discuss personal websites (both static HTML and blogs) the non-commercial web, the web… Read More
2024-02-12 14:27
Busy times. Updated: Website Promotion Guide for Personal Blogs and Website Promotion Guide for Static Personal Sites, I noticed links that had gone dead plus I found several new place… Read More
2024-02-08 13:14
Back in 2019, I was bemoaning the loss of Technorati and other RSS search engines like Ice Rocket and I didn’t think we would see their like again. Well now it’s 2024 and there h… Read More
2024-01-17 13:52
I’m aware of the disagreement about the use of Brave Search API as a search source for the Kagi metasearch engine. I’m sympathetic to both sides in this debate but I feel the nee… Read More
2024-01-05 19:42
About this update: This is an update of an article from 2022. There have been enough improvements in 2 years to warrant an update! 2024 updates are in red. Some items… Read More
2023-11-02 18:41
Just a quick note. If you want to read some good coverage of the US vs Google monopoly trial I strongly recommend: Big Tech on Trial. I think it’s better that you read that than me try… Read More
2022-09-02 13:02
It’s Time to Add a little Analog Goodness to the Directory Note Taking | Analog Zettelkasten | (Fountain) Pens & Paper | Typewriters I’ve written about adding m… Read More
2022-08-15 13:22
Digital Garden | Personal Knowledge | Commonplace Book | Website For a long time there have been two types of personal web pages: 1. static, old school, personal homepages, and… Read More
2022-07-27 22:01
July was a busy month with lots of new features and changes. Stumblizer – In July I cobbled together a random website finder, sorta like the old StumbleUpon. … Read More
2022-07-18 14:00
Old School Site Promotion 1998 Style To set the scene, back in the late 1990’s everybody on the web was trying to come to grips with web discovery. That is the discovery o… Read More
2022-07-07 18:45
Before we start, I am only talking about this in the context of non-commercial exchanges for equally non-commercial personal homepages. I will be talking about and listing resources fo… Read More
2022-07-05 14:00
I made a Thing! Actually I made two things. Two site randomizers to entertain you and help you discover things on the Web. And … Adventure! Stumblizer – this is my cobbled… Read More
2022-07-02 23:30
June 2022 was a busy month here at Indieseek.xyz. I cranked out 16 new posts on the blog which ties my record. This includes two website promotion guides one for static websites… Read More
2022-06-30 16:28
The elves that build search engines are really kicking into high gear, and I’m loving it. If you have been following my writings for awhile you know that I want a Web with 5 to 8… Read More
2022-06-28 12:00
This Website Submission Guide is for Personal Weblogs Do Not Submit an empty blog with no content. Make some pages and write at least a dozen long form posts first. I have omitted dire… Read More
2022-06-27 12:00
I made a Thing! I made a new webring, Retroweb Ring A webring for non-commercial personal pages be they static homepages or blogs or non-commercial directories that list the 19… Read More
2022-06-26 11:52
“Site Promotion” is an old term from the 1990’s Web for getting your website listed in as many search engines and directories as possible so that no matter where a person w… Read More
2022-06-24 18:04
What if you combined a webring with a blogroll (or linkroll?) We need to define an important difference between the two: Webring: the site webmaster must ask to join a webring and place a sp… Read More
2022-06-24 13:38
I can tell when I add a genuine Old 1990’s website to the Indieseek.xyz directory. See, when I’m adding a URL the directory script tries to fetch the Title tag and the Desc… Read More
2022-06-21 14:06
Only it has a Different Name Curlie Curlie.org the successor to the old defunct Dmoz Directory (aka Open Directory Project or ODP) has come out of hibernation and is ready to be used… Read More
2022-06-21 12:00
I recently had to post a bio of me online and the web directories I’ve built. While writing it I remembered I’d done this before on my personal blog. I pretty much st… Read More
2022-06-20 11:57
FLASH, I’ve been carping about the Web needing more webring hosts for awhile, only to discover a new small startup webring host webri.ng on Hacker News discussion. This is… Read More
2022-06-17 13:00
I started this directory in 2018. Human edited directories were dead. There were a few around but not a lot. Discovery was all about search engines, namely Google and Bing… Read More
2022-06-12 15:51
So you want to start a new blog but you want to keep it simple and the costs low. Here are a couple of blog hosts that I’ve recently come across that let you spend more time writ… Read More
2022-06-11 22:36
I have been reviewing a lot of retroweb (yesterweb) type static HTML sites lately. These harken back to the Geocities sites of old and it was great fun seeing what is being built. &hell…Read More
2022-06-07 12:00
Link additions continue. About 25 new listings as of today derived from rooting through my old bookmarks, my web prowling and webmaster submissions. New Directories Listed! i.we… Read More
2022-06-06 13:00
Hello. I was going to write a post about how to surf the web only I remembered it had already been written, in a far more comprehensive format, by another person. So I’m ju… Read More
2022-05-16 14:53
I have added quite a few new listings. Some are submissions and some are editorial adds. Also added are some new categories: Amtrak: under Recreation > Travel I added s… Read More
2022-04-28 11:49
Mojeek, the privacy respecting search engine that has it’s own crawler and index, has started it’s own community to get feedback and input from it’s users. The commun… Read More
2022-01-04 14:33
Marginalia Search is a new web search engine worth bookmarking, using and paying attention to. It has it’s own crawler, algo(s) and index. What makes Marginalia Search different… Read More
2021-04-19 13:00
I am highlighting two search engines that are indexing the only Indie Web and/or Indieweb pages (please see below for my definitions of these terms.) Each search engine is different fr… Read More
2021-03-25 14:32
None of this is new news, it’s just new to me and in case it slipped under your radar I’m sharing it. It starts with this interview in HackerNoon: Startpage is Still a Privacy-Fi… Read More
2021-03-23 11:10
I previously reviewed Mojeek.com in September, 2018. (Note: I’m now posting all search related stuff here instead of on my personal blog.) Since then there has been a lot o… Read More
2021-03-22 10:30
I’m looking for feedback to see is there are things I can do that would be more helpful to webmasters here at Indieseek.xyz. My questions are: What can Indieseek.xyz do t… Read More
2021-03-19 10:54
I added some new search engines to the directory here. What makes these worth listing is they all have their own index. This makes them unique even though the index may currently… Read More
2021-03-18 14:23
Mojeek.com, my favorite upstart privacy search engine, turns 15 years old today. Congratulations, Mojeek! There is a discussion on Hacker News, you might want to check out. And an inte… Read More
2021-03-18 11:22
Bookmark: How to Surf the Web (nowadays) This is a great retro 1990’s page chock full of resources and tips on how to surf the web in 2021. There are links to new tools and start… Read More
2021-03-17 11:00
If you are not using Google, chances are the search engine you are using is probably powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. This is because setting up a search engine that ac… Read More
2021-01-26 17:10
Internet gatekeeper Google has threatened to cut the country/continent of Australia off from access to Google search engine. This is because Australia is close to passing a law that wo… Read More
2020-06-06 18:15
A few months ago I submitted this blog and my personal blog for listing in the Blogarama Blog Directory. I used the free listing option, then the whole pandemic hit and I forgot all ab… Read More
2020-03-20 21:37
Hey, while everybody else is posting articles about how to work from home, I’m giving you links related to slacking off. Consider me your uncle that tells you about stuff that yo… Read More
2020-03-10 23:21
I added a new category in the directory for Coronavirus news. https://indieseek.xyz/links/news/coronavirus/ I’ve listed 5 good news outlets that I have run across over the last week.&n&hell…Read More
2020-02-23 21:22
Like: Detailed tests of search engines: Google, Startpage, Bing, DuckDuckGo, metaGer, Ecosia, Swisscows, Searx, Qwant, Yandex, and Mojeek | LibreTechTips Since my last article, many ot… Read More
2020-02-23 01:39
New Listings Love is Zero – Is a site submitted by the owner just today. What makes it stand out to me is it’s a really well done fusion of Geocities type sites tran… Read More
2020-02-07 03:12
We have a new Linear Ring for Micro.blog Blogs. It’s open to any blog, hosted of self-hosted that posts into the Micro.blog community. Micro.bloggers can submit whatever section… Read More
2020-02-01 00:43
I’ve spent the better part of two days setting up a “The Unofficial Micro.blog Webring”, troubleshooting as to why my browsers blocked the ring code on my Hugo blog but let… Read More
2020-01-29 13:50
There is a whole raft of new search engine startups plus many established players that all share one thing: their primary search source is Bing. Which leads me to the question of… Read More
2020-01-28 23:16
Bookmark: 9 Best Private Search Engines for 2020 | Restore Privacy This new and improved guide aims to be the most in-depth resource available on private search engines. We’ll examine… Read More
2020-01-28 13:34
There is an updated HrefHunt page for 27 January 2020 by Kicks Condor. HrefHunt is Kick’s monthly trawl of distinctive sites he’s found on the Web and is always an entertai… Read More
2020-01-26 22:42
Today, this site joined Hotline Webring. Hotline is a new style webring so you don’t have to do a lot of registration to join. In fact, this is one of the easiest webrings to joi… Read More
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