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I believe these two search engines focus on just this:

https://marginalia-search.com/

https://wiby.me/

Also check out this post (not mine):

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...

Kagi has a good lens for that.

https://kagi.com/smallweb

Sites are sourced from here https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...

TY

This already exists. You’re talking about the gemini protocol and websites built as gemtext instead of html and hosted as gemini: instead of https:. They are invisible to google, and that is a feature, not a bug.

I've been working on a small web index for some time now, the gating criterion is almost exactly your phrasing - "authentic". It's surprisingly easy to look at a page and decide hot dog/not hot dog.

> built by humans directly, authentic sites.

I'm afraid I don't quite understand the meaning of this; authentic with respect to what, the world wide web of 30 years ago?

I built a site to give you a starting point for discovery: https://indieblog.page

There are still people who make websites for fun, linux circles and github come to mind