I want the small web back. I want more people to produce quality ad-free content for the love of doing so and the desire to make the world a better place. And then I want a classic search engine to find stuff; one that heavily downranks content with ads.
There is https://marginalia-search.com/
100% agree, but I don't know how to turn back the clock to browsing weird little sites of back text on gray background in NCSA Mosaic.
Build a search engine that prioritizes that content, and let folks figure the rest out?
It probably won't be huge but isn't that kind of the point?
But that still won't give you all the capability. Often the info I'm looking for isn't just in one place.
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Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search
by Rabbit504030201 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:42PM
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What wikis do you use?
This is the reverse of my desires. Most pages on the current web contain a few useful nuggets buried in a shit sandwich of overly verbose text and aggressive advertising. AI extraction and summarization distills the mess to concentrate the useful bits.