[greggturkington]

Wouldn't this just skew towards really old sites?

The third search result for "dog" is this page on how to remove AOL Instant Messenger, published in 2002.

https://sillydog.org/netscape/kb/removeaim.html

No one wants to see newsletter signup popovers, but "modern web design" includes good performance and relevant content. (The search engine itself takes about 2 seconds to first contentful paint, not great.)

[bityard]

This search engine pretty much takes everything that Google is doing and does the opposite. For instance, Google has decided that "relevant" usually also means "recent". Thus, when searching for something on Google, you mainly get results from blogspam farms and almost never do you see anything more than a few years old.

An implication of this is that old sites tend to disappear (either into obscurity or by being taken down) because Google penalizes them in search rankings. The author of this search engine says, however:

> If a webpage has been around for a long time, then odds are it has fundamental redeeming quality that has motivated keeping it around all for that time.

I don't know that I agree 100% with this (there was lots of crap on the "old" web too), but it makes a certain amount of sense.

[greggturkington]

What "fundamental redeeming quality" about uninstalling AIM from Windows 3.x motivated making that the 3rd result for "dog"?

The 5th result is a tutorial on CSS. This search engine decided it's relevant because it has "dog" in the URL. Is that a better reasoning than Google's? https://htmldog.com/guides/css/beginner/

Core Web Vitals ranks sites higher that perform well. Text-heavy sites that are also optimized and relevant would already perform well.

[marginalia_nu]

What are you searching for when you enter the query "dog", keeping in mind the search engine deliberately does not examine synonyms or and deliberately seeks out the path less taken?

Dog facts? Then search "dog facts"

Famous dogs? Then search "famous dogs"

Rappers? Try "snoop dogg"

[greggturkington]

I'm searching for information on "dog".

Your suggestion of "dog facts" returns 6 pages from the same domain, dogquotes.com. It's unreadable on mobile because it's so old, all the facts are unsourced, and often wrong:

> Never assume that a barking dog won't bute [sic], unless you're absolutely certain the dog believes it too.

Also on the 1st SERP, this odd blog post ranting about 4th amendment rights [1], "Media Glamorization of the Psychopath" [2], and this (image-heavy) page about dolphin encounters in the Bahamas ("Sea Dog Facts" is a link on the page).

    1. http://www.rexcurry.net/drugdogsdan.html
    2. https://www.metaphoricalplatypus.com/articles/psychology/psychopathysociopathy/media-glamorization-of-the-psychopath/
    3. https://www.dolphinencounters.com/education/