Subj : Re: Community
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Oct 05 2022 00:20:17

 Ar>  > I'm at times left to wonder, how much data Google Search actually maint
 Ar>  > about the individuals using it.  I've found frequently if I swap search
 Ar>  > engines I cannot get anything remotely like the information I'm looking
 Ar>  > while getting all sorts of extraneous junk.  While if I go back to the 
 Ar>  > Empire I'll generally get a better result.  Usually I'm not looking for
 Ar>  > anything thats on any other major service like FacePalm or similar.
 Ar>  > 
 Ar> 
 Ar> I don t know. For general search, Bing/Duckduckgo are quite good.
 Ar> Results don t get better if I switch to Startpage/Google.
 Ar> 
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You used to be able to find more obscure webpages on google.  Now its the same old top 5 sites.  Google seems to strongly prefer the big players, and doesn't really service up the smaller web creators.  There is also a trend for many of these sites to NOT link to other sites, so finding more information on a topic is hard, as you have to search, and search again.

We used to have web-rings which allowed us to find different sites on the same topic.

Here are two good web search engines to try.

https://wiby.me

This focuses on sites with simpler design.  You won't get the Javascript laden, slow heavy sites here.  It's fun to click "surprise me" and see what you get.

Another is
https://search.marginalia.nu/

Which again focuses on non-commercial content and shows you stuff you may not have been aware of.  A lot isn't on these sites, but when I used them I did something I haven't done in a while, and that is actually SURFED the 'net.

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