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I think that's a cool project, though I found the results to be less relevant than Google.
by boxedemp 7mo ago
I think that's a cool project, though I found the results to be less relevant than Google.
- janalsncm 7mo agoWhether the results are less relevant or not depends massively on what you searched and whether the best results even exist in the Marginalia search index or not. If Google is ranking small web results better than Marginalia, that’s actionable. If the best result isn’t in the index and it should be, that’s actionable.
- marginalia_nu 7mo agoWell to be fair, Marginalia is also developed by 1 guy (me), and Google has like 10K people and infinite compute they can throw at the problem. There has been definite improvements, and will be more improvements still, but Google's still got hands.
- janalsncm 7mo agoHey Marginalia, cheers. Imo fewer hands can also be an advantage. There are no PMs breathing down your neck to inject more ads in the search results, you don’t depend on any broken internal bespoke tools that you can’t fix yourself, and you don’t need anybody’s permission to deploy a new ranking strategy if you want to.
- gzread 7mo agoI've used Marginalia to search for technical documentation before, unironically. Whatever it does find is pretty much guaranteed to be non-slop.