A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

[rcjordan]

https://search.marginalia.nu/

[Brad]

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

[rcjordan]

A quick test looked promising for medical topics.

[ergophobe]

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.

[Brad]

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.   

[BoL]

>self hosted in the creators apt.

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