[matesz]

> But I have to wonder what's the point of a search engine that weights some arbitrary aspect of web design higher than the relevancy of the subject matter (to the point of not returning any results at all)?

Because in some cases it returns arguably better/more to the point results, than other search engines – for example search for “Douglas Engelbart” or “Ted Nelson”. I thought that I’ve searched everything for those two yet marginalia gave results otherwise I would have never seen,.