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Show HN: Marginalia – Exploration Mode - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30047455 - Jan 2022 (53 comments)
A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764 - Sept 2021 (717 comments)
It's one of my smorgasbord search engines run from a script (which collectively do so much better than Google or any of the legacy "big-tech" engines) Why it matters One of the great American philosophical orators, Rick Roderick (a Texan cowboy philosopher and academic twin of Bill Hicks), spoke about the importance of "the margins": Rick notices that in history certain people do not get a voice; Women. The Poor. Old…
Not really sure why this feverish ramble deserves the front page, but sure, I'll take it.
It's one of my smorgasbord search engines run from a script (which collectively do so much better than Google or any of the legacy "big-tech" engines) Why it matters One of the great American philosophical orators, Rick Roderick (a Texan cowboy philosopher and academic twin of Bill Hicks), spoke about the importance of "the margins": Rick notices that in history certain people do not get a voice; Women. The Poor. Old…
It's one of my smorgasbord search engines run from a script (which collectively do so much better than Google or any of the legacy "big-tech" engines) Why it matters One of the great American philosophical orators, Rick Roderick (a Texan cowboy philosopher and academic twin of Bill Hicks), spoke about the importance of "the margins": Rick notices that in history certain people do not get a voice; Women. The Poor. Old…
You have a neat way with words. I enjoyed reading this.
It's one of my smorgasbord search engines run from a script (which collectively do so much better than Google or any of the legacy "big-tech" engines) Why it matters One of the great American philosophical orators, Rick Roderick (a Texan cowboy philosopher and academic twin of Bill Hicks), spoke about the importance of "the margins": Rick notices that in history certain people do not get a voice; Women. The Poor. Old…
Marginalia is a breath of fresh air in an internet that seems to be...disappearing. I actually like it's philosophy of not doing "useful" search queries - it's great just to see what's lost behind Google's wall of Reddit/Wikipedia/SEO Blogspam results. Funnily, after playing with it for a bit my gripe is that there isn't a way to exclude results from vanity domain names which are consistently the lowest quality resul…
It's one of my smorgasbord search engines run from a script (which collectively do so much better than Google or any of the legacy "big-tech" engines) Why it matters One of the great American philosophical orators, Rick Roderick (a Texan cowboy philosopher and academic twin of Bill Hicks), spoke about the importance of "the margins": Rick notices that in history certain people do not get a voice; Women. The Poor. Old…
https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/gemini-server.gmi
> I put the machine together mostly for a search engine, Because I didn't want an actual rack making noise and heat in my living room, the server is made out of consumer hardware:
> Ryzen 9 3900X
> 128 Gb RAM
> 4x4 Gb IronWolf ZFS
> A bunch of SSDs index lookups