#websearch
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #websearch from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #websearch
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 11:35 UTC3 uses by 3 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-15 11:35 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 11:35 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~820 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 05:00
Languages: English (37) · Russian (1) · Dutch (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
So Ive used #DuckDuckGo #browser for a while. Not perfect but close enough for me. One of the things I get mileage out of is what I call "bang" searches. Ya put an exclamation point before a keyword and it does a digdown search. !wiki thing
Meanwhile in #Marginalia Discord, Viktor: > Wtf why is the search engine blowing up everywhere all the sudden. He hasn't got analytics. Not even ethical ones like #Matomo or #GoatCounter. So he doesn't know what is happening. But Viktor is
What's died is not the web itself, but ads as a revenue model for it. The platformization and enshittification of digital advertising just a prelude to businesses realising it has no value. In fact, I suspect the enshittification of search
What “websearch” means
WikipediaThe term search engine refers to a search application that provides links to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. Users submit their queries through a web browser or a mobile app, and the results page generally displays a collection of hyperlinks together with brief descriptions and relevant images. Users also have the option of limiting a search to specific types of results, such as images, videos, or news.
“Search engine” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#websearch across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #websearch straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/websearch