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Ex Urbe

exurbe.com · a site they built themselves

Read them at exurbe.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Ex Urbe publishes art and short stories at exurbe.com, a site they built themselves. Last published January 2026, still publishing this year. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

unfound by the big engines

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 11

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 11, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured
Front page
472 KB, 24 scripts, 179 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
2 other writers in the index, 27 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-09-12, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

renaissance78inventing18beatrice13historian89history1172hungary51alfonso4machiavelli6naple10matthia8sffrelated1corvinus1firstperson25florence46

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Their neighbourhood

PluralisticStephen Saperstein27 sites outside the indexEx Urbe
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Pluralistic, Stephen Saperstein Frug.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · no optimization at all

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.
  • The navigation carries a commercial page or two.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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