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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Tue Oct 4 09:05:00 2022

    FYI..

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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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  • From Unix Lord@1:105/420 to August Abolins on Wed Oct 5 19:38:47 2022
    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.

    Nice, it didn't know about marginalia.nu. wiby has a cool feature that allows you to visit a random website. There are very interesting web pages out there, are surprinsingly enough, many of them are still updated.

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