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> search.marginalia.nu This is just retrieving articles when I search, not actual websites. Interesting if you're looking for article related to search keyword
by emsixteen 5y ago
> search.marginalia.nu
This is just retrieving articles when I search, not actual websites. Interesting if you're looking for article related to search keywords I guess, but genuinely unusable for actually finding something specific.
- nuancebydefault 5y agoGave it another try with "ssh scp". Google's first result explains me how to use scp (ssh provides a hint about the context), which was what i would be looking for. Marganilla... not so much it seems
- marginalia_nu 5y agohttps://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=scp&profile=yolo&js=default https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=scp&profile=yolo&j... tho
- nuancebydefault 5y agoThe second hit links to a man page of scp. It is a formal description of the syntax, not what I was looking for... I'd rather have a short intro and a few examples of typical usage instead, am I being pedantic? If i wanted a formal description i would google 'scp cli', 'scp options' or even 'man scp'. Also, on a tangent, to be honest -- I find searching simply for 'scp' not a very clever approach. How did Marginalia guess it would be the cli tool and not one of the other acronyms?
- marginalia_nu 5y agoYeah that's not the sort of search engine this is. If you search for SCP, it will show you documents where that term is relevant, using domain ranking as a tiebreaker. It's quite intentionally not trying to read your mind. I think it showed the man page first because that domain is highly ranked.