Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
by mrweasel on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:03PM
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I love Marginalia, it's such a great project. You get really weird, but interesting results. Honestly I don't use it as much as I'd like, but it's still fun to go down a rabbit hole and read actual content.
Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
by marginalia_nu on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:33PM
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It's probably quite far off being viable as a daily driver search engine, but maybe it doesn't need to be either. I built it to pick up the slack in the areas where the big search engines are floundering, and as long as it's doing that, I think that's quite sufficient.
Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
by gbrindisi on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @07:13AM
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Thanks for your work! FYI I've submitted a !Bang on DuckDuckGo to search Marginalia (see: https://duckduckgo.com/bang). Waiting for it to be approved.
Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
by marginalia_nu on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:16AM
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I think it's been submitted a few times before, but I guess if they keep getting these requests they'll eventually add it.
Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
by skinkestek on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:48AM
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Your project makes my life better both because it is already useful and because it gives me hope!
Even though it's a bit broken, it has some lucid moments. Just compare:
https://www.google.com/search?q=mechanical+keyboards
https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=mechanical+keyboar...
The take-away I want to drive home is that it's absolutely possible to build something the scale of Google c.a. 2003 and run it on consumer hardware. I think, due to general difficulties in making these things profitable, the ideal approach is to make the operation so absurdly cheap it can be run non-profit instead. I'll gladly pay out of my own pocket to have a good search alternative.