Explore the smol web with Marginalia
When visiting the World Wide Web, we prefer the human made personal web sites, aka the smol web. These web sites were already hard to find, but since the dominant search engines have dropped them from their indexes and mainly focus on commercial shit, they have become even harder to discover.
Marginalia is a search engine with a focus on the smol web. According to its Git hub page, the overarching goal is to elevate the more human, non-commercial sides of the Internet.
Marginalia is a one person project, which makes it even more awesome.
Searching with Marginalia
Marginalia is used like search engines in the past. Don't phrase a question or input a sentence to search. Just enter one or more keywords, as you expect those to appear in the web pages you are looking for.
Searching with Marginalia often results in a treasure trove full of pages from the smol web. Searching with Marginalia has a much lower chance of pulling up some AI-generated crap or being bombarded by SEO non-sense.
The good thing is that Marginalia works with any browser. Of course it works fine in graphical browsers like Firefox, it's also fine when using TUI browsers like Links, lynx, and eww.
Exploring the smol web
Marginalia is not only great to search for specific information, it is also a great way to explore the smol web.
Just enter one or two keywords, and one by one visit the sites that appear in the search results. For each site, look around, explore it a bit. When the site looks promising, add it to you RSS feed reader.
Only together we can keep the smol web alive.
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