Yes. I want an old school sewrch engine that JUST does blogs and small websites. And no “Big News Website Blogs”. Just random people on Wordpress and Blogger, etc.
I was browsing a Geocities archive the other day and its just like, fuck I miss when the web was just fun and random people making dumb websites about random shit.
searchmysite.net and search.marginalia.nu are both kinda interesting. I don’t know that their models scale particularly well, but in some ways they don’t have to
Honestly someone should spin up a small web index. You can isolate yourself to a nice corner of the Internet and ignore the rest of the toxic mess.
Kagi, the premium paid search engine, has a “small web” feature that is exactly this
Yes. I want an old school sewrch engine that JUST does blogs and small websites. And no “Big News Website Blogs”. Just random people on Wordpress and Blogger, etc.
I was browsing a Geocities archive the other day and its just like, fuck I miss when the web was just fun and random people making dumb websites about random shit.
I found some sites with this concept:
https://wiby.me/
https://www.oldavista.com/
https://sloop.nz/
https://marginalia-search.com/
RIP Frogfind
isnt that the point of neocities?
searchmysite.net and search.marginalia.nu are both kinda interesting. I don’t know that their models scale particularly well, but in some ways they don’t have to
Back in my day, I had an internet butler do that for me.