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https://search.marginalia.nu https://search.marginalia.nu has a very interesting approach to this: Use tracking especially and JS generally as a weight in rank

https://search.marginalia.nu https://search.marginalia.nu has a very interesting approach to this: Use tracking especially and JS generally as a weight in ranking so sites that contains much of any of these needs to be exceptionally high quality to float to the top. This means sites with limited ads and tracking, typically enthusiast driven pages float to the top. Now always when someone discusses a novel way to combat webspam someone will immediately counter: if this becomes popular SEO hackers will immediately start doing this. Well - if reducing page size and removing tracking becomes a leading SEO trick I can deal with a bit of SEO hacking :-) Yet for some reason I feel Google won't start using this very simple metric :-)

marginalia_nu 5y ago
Another big factor in what I do is prioritizing the opinions of certain indieweb sites when ranking domains, basically a segment of the graph consisting of humans with a particular dislike for seo spam. This makes ranking manipulation much less effective.
- ffhhj 5y ago
  Good to see you in this thread! I just added Marginalia to the recommended search engines in a new search tool I'm building, to get programming answers faster. The search assistant builds queries for specific sites with "site:targetsite.com , programming question" (that comma is not a typo). When doing a query like that I get no results but these warnings: /!\ The term "," contains characters that are not currently supported /!\ Try rephrasing the query, changing the word order or using synonyms to get different results. Tips. sample: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Astackoverflow.com%20%2C%20css%20background https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Astackoverfl... Please make your engine ignore the comma, it shouldn't affect the search. Either ignore the site:... expression or filter sites accordingly. Thanks a lot for creating Marginalia!
  - marginalia_nu 5y ago
    Ignoring comma seems doable, I'll have it fixed in a few days, currently away from my work computer. site:-queries are supported, but only at the first domain level. (e.g. site:marginalia.nu; not site:search.marginalia.nu). I might tune it so that it strips subdomains automatically, that is pretty trivial.
  - marginalia_nu 5y ago
    I've made the changes to the syntax (as well as fixed a bug that broke site:-queries), although I think it's probably not a great search engine for searching big mainstream websites like SO, the crawler is designed to de-prioritize them over blogs and what have you. Disregard what I said in the other comment about the domain names, use the full domain name. e.g. this works fine: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Amemex.marginalia.nu+java&profile=yolo&js=default https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Amemex.margi... If you just do a site:-query without any search terms, you'll get a dump outlining the crawling status of the site. Like this: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Astackoverflow.com https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Astackoverfl... You can see it's crawled 80 pages but not gone much farther since SO ranked so low.

marginalia_nu 5y ago

Another big factor in what I do is prioritizing the opinions of certain indieweb sites when ranking domains, basically a segment of the graph consisting of humans with a particular dislike for seo spam. This makes ranking manipulation much less effective.

ffhhj 5y ago
Good to see you in this thread! I just added Marginalia to the recommended search engines in a new search tool I'm building, to get programming answers faster. The search assistant builds queries for specific sites with "site:targetsite.com , programming question" (that comma is not a typo). When doing a query like that I get no results but these warnings: /!\ The term "," contains characters that are not currently supported /!\ Try rephrasing the query, changing the word order or using synonyms to get different results. Tips. sample: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Astackoverflow.com%20%2C%20css%20background https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Astackoverfl... Please make your engine ignore the comma, it shouldn't affect the search. Either ignore the site:... expression or filter sites accordingly. Thanks a lot for creating Marginalia!
- marginalia_nu 5y ago
  Ignoring comma seems doable, I'll have it fixed in a few days, currently away from my work computer. site:-queries are supported, but only at the first domain level. (e.g. site:marginalia.nu; not site:search.marginalia.nu). I might tune it so that it strips subdomains automatically, that is pretty trivial.
- marginalia_nu 5y ago
  I've made the changes to the syntax (as well as fixed a bug that broke site:-queries), although I think it's probably not a great search engine for searching big mainstream websites like SO, the crawler is designed to de-prioritize them over blogs and what have you. Disregard what I said in the other comment about the domain names, use the full domain name. e.g. this works fine: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Amemex.marginalia.nu+java&profile=yolo&js=default https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Amemex.margi... If you just do a site:-query without any search terms, you'll get a dump outlining the crawling status of the site. Like this: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Astackoverflow.com https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=site%3Astackoverfl... You can see it's crawled 80 pages but not gone much farther since SO ranked so low.