[marginalia_nu]

To be fair, my search engine isn't really trying to be google, it's more of an exploration and discovery tool even though it dresses up as a search engine and sometimes does a decent job at it.

Unless someone sends me a ton of money, I just don't have the budget to be more than that. I also think the "better google" space is getting a bit crowded anyway, I think there's probably more interesting niches to be carved out in the general space of discovery.

[eitland]

Of course if I had to choose between Marginalia and Google I'd probably have to choose Google.

But don't underestimate the value of proving that it is possible to create a delightful (fast, less patronizing, less spamful, surfaces more real content) search engine without having a FAANG budget or backing from a national state or someone with a FAANG budget.

Edit: also don't underestimate how cool it is. ;-)

[marginalia_nu]

Yeah, I do think that's sort of one goal of it, a "show, don't tell" contradiction about some of the less well founded assumptions that seems widely accepted about software development and webdesign. It's too easy to dismiss words.