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Why We Are Here => Traffic => Topic started by: rcjordan on January 03, 2022, 04:02:14 AM

Title: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Post by: rcjordan on January 03, 2022, 04:02:14 AM

https://search.marginalia.nu/
Title: Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Post by: Brad on January 03, 2022, 01:21:49 PM
I'm liking both the concept and what I see here.  I really want to see this continue development.

>text-heavy

That's one way, perhaps a good one, of weeding out the commercial sites.

It reminds me of a bigger more advanced/sophisticated version of https://wiby.me
Title: Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Post by: rcjordan on January 03, 2022, 02:02:35 PM
A quick test looked promising for medical topics.
Title: Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Post by: ergophobe on January 04, 2022, 06:31:12 PM
Hmm... for me I've just gotten "unresponsive server" responses.

Interesting idea though. I've always been a fan of lots of text. All else being equal, it is likely that the longer page is a better page. But I don't think it follows that the text-only page is likely to be the better page.
Title: Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Post by: Brad on January 05, 2022, 01:00:17 AM
I think the thing is self hosted in the creators apt.

>text only
>better

True.  Of course no search engine really rates a webpage's quality, only how popular a page is.

But listing text heavy pages is one way to filter out the commercial only pages and many advert farm pages and dreck.   
Title: Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Post by: BoL on January 05, 2022, 07:42:21 AM
>self hosted in the creators apt.

Think so, 2 nodes and <$5K of equipment.
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