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Part of it is the web in general kind of sucks in an overtly user hostile way. But I think the main draw of Phind and similar alternatives isn't necessarily th
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
Part of it is the web in general kind of sucks in an overtly user hostile way.
But I think the main draw of Phind and similar alternatives isn't necessarily that it's that much better at getting the necessary information, it's just so much less annoying to use because it cuts out all the newsletter popovers, bait and switch blogspam, cookie consent popups, SEO dark patterns etc. You don't have to mentally filter out a bunch of nonsense.
Search engines are annoying. I say this as I spend time and effort developing one.
- disqard 4y agoI was hoping you'd share your thoughts in this thread! Have you incorporated any embedding model in your search engine? FWIW, I personally enjoy using marginalia and like its current spartan + fast design.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI'd like to experiment with it for topic detection but I just don't have the compute. Closest thing is explore2.marginalia.nu and similarity pagerank, but it's all very basic and unga bunga.