The Death Knell of Digital Search

Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by beej71 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:45AM (#50442848)

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.

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Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by odo1242 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:07PM (#50443164)

There is https://marginalia-search.com/

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Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by xnx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:23PM (#50443343)

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.

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Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by ssl-3 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:40PM (#50444374)

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?

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Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search by jolt42 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:18PM (#50444056)

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 i1856511 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:30PM (#50446578)

Kagi Small Web

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