# Wiby

17 Hacker News commenters recommended Wiby and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free search engine that indexes small personal sites and old-style pages, which people use to find blogs and browse the web at random.

## Why people recommend it

- Finds personal blogs and small sites (7 comments): "Try search something on https://wiby.me for example and then tell me if all you get are people writing about the web." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509480)) "Whenever I want to experience the web as it used to be I'll run a search on wiby.me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875497)) "I typically use marginalia and wiby to make finding posts from blogs easier" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631151))
- Listed among other small-web directories (2 comments): "Marginalia Search / Kagi Small Web / Wiby / Million Short are better options" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069121)) "here are a few other directories and indices worth checking out" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643588))
- Fun random browsing via surprise button (2 comments): "I spent a couple of hours on wiby.me browsing sites at random and it was amazing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511621)) "has fun hitting the "surprise me" button" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215975))
- Surfaces pages corporate search misses (2 comments): "There is a lot of fun stuff still there, but a corporate search engine might not point you to it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024233)) "Marginalia Search / Kagi Small Web / Wiby / Million Short are better options" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069121))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Google Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-search.md): 315 recommend
- [Yandex Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/yandex.md): 79 recommend
- [Marginalia Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/marginalia-search.md): 50 recommend
- [Bing](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bing.md): 33 recommend
- [Ecosia](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ecosia.md): 24 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://wiby.me/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Wiby", https://hackerapproved.com/p/wiby/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).