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The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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I'm very keen on public libraries. I'm fortunate in that our village has a community run one, there is the county one, and I can get to The British Library. Why do these entities exist? A real question - not rhetorical. Whatever the answer, I am sure the same mechanism could "pay for" public hosting.

Are you asking why public libraries exist?

More how they exist.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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I'm very keen on public libraries. I'm fortunate in that our village has a community run one, there is the county one, and I can get to The British Library. Why do these entities exist? A real question - not rhetorical. Whatever the answer, I am sure the same mechanism could "pay for" public hosting.

You want the government to fund the small web?

The government funds some libraries, and for some publicly acceptable reason. That reason should apply to web infrastructure, and indeed the small web. Other libraries are community run. Again whatever motivates that probably applies to small web stuff.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Sadely this search engine is now javascript only. So the "small" web...

Couple of things. 1. No. It's not javascript only. https://old-search.marginalia.nu/ is still available. It is also mentioned in https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/redesign/ as gonna be there for a very long time. 2. I don't think just because it uses javascript make it bad. It's a very nice site now. I prefer it better than old version. My website doesn't use JS for any functionality yet. But I've never sai…

I do 100% disagree.

web apps are gated by the abominations of whatng cartel web engines, with even worse SDKs, mechanically certainly not 'small' and assurely a definitive nono.

And the 'old' interface, you bet I tried to use it... which is actually gated with javascript... so...

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Sadely this search engine is now javascript only. So the "small" web...

If that's an issue, and if you don't mind building something out yourself, Marginalia have an excellent API that you can connect to from your own personal non-Javascript meta-search engine. I did that, and I find Marginalia awesome to deal with. They're one of my favorite internet projects. (Also, thanks for reminding me that it was time I donated something to the Marginalia project: https://buymeacoffee.com/marginal…

Are there 'public'/'anonymous' API keys I could use to perform a web search with CURL?

(I guess I would get json formatted search result data)

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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If that's an issue, and if you don't mind building something out yourself, Marginalia have an excellent API that you can connect to from your own personal non-Javascript meta-search engine. I did that, and I find Marginalia awesome to deal with. They're one of my favorite internet projects. (Also, thanks for reminding me that it was time I donated something to the Marginalia project: https://buymeacoffee.com/marginal…

Are there 'public'/'anonymous' API keys I could use to perform a web search with CURL? (I guess I would get json formatted search result data)

There is! The API Key is literally "public". But apparently it often gets rate limited, because seemingly every Metasearch engine uses that one. I think there might also be a slightly less rate-limited one for Hacker News users if you search around (I no longer remember what it is since I got my own key in the end.)

You can get your own API key for free by emailing, but that would not be anonymous, I guess.

I don't have curl syntax to hand, but hopefully it's easy to figure out from these documents. I may come back and edit later with curl syntax if I get time:

https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/api/

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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They barely mentioned your website (fourth in five urls, mainly talking about indieblog.com and kagi.com/smallweb), so "That is my website!" is confusing and makes it seem like you're autoresponding to a keyword.

Why should I auto-respond to a keyword? Just curious seeing it here buddy. Breathe easy.

Auto-responding when Google Alerts spots your keyword on a new site would help promote your website.

I missed that "That" meant "the site that matches my username" so I had gone through a process of "how is this guy claiming to own https://kagi.com/smallweb" and "did he mean indieblog.page/random" and "why is he also saying he wrote something at unsungNovelty.org which doesn't match either of those". I never did figure it out, I opened all the links to check the author and finally got it. Sorry I was dumb. But antecedents are important.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Are there 'public'/'anonymous' API keys I could use to perform a web search with CURL? (I guess I would get json formatted search result data)

There is! The API Key is literally "public". But apparently it often gets rate limited, because seemingly every Metasearch engine uses that one. I think there might also be a slightly less rate-limited one for Hacker News users if you search around (I no longer remember what it is since I got my own key in the end.) You can get your own API key for free by emailing, but that would not be anonymous, I guess. I don't h…

Thx! This is great news.

If their email server does handle self-hosted SMTP server with ip literal email addresses (with the ip from the SMTP, stronger than SPF), indeed, I will probably ask for my mine.

I wish major AI services would do the same or something close.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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You sound like someone with stories.... got any I can read?

Nothing offhand that I can share. But take a look at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281818.Where_Wizards_Sta...

Thanks!
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