[hakko]

Marginalia is a breath of fresh air in an internet that seems to be...disappearing. I actually like it's philosophy of not doing "useful" search queries - it's great just to see what's lost behind Google's wall of Reddit/Wikipedia/SEO Blogspam results. Funnily, after playing with it for a bit my gripe is that there isn't a way to exclude results from vanity domain names which are consistently the lowest quality results.

[h0h0h0h0111]

>I actually like it's philosophy of not doing "useful" search queries

Generalising this a little, it sometimes feels like the world has become all about optimisation and productivity, and the beauty of uselessness has gone missing. Many of my favourite posts/projects on HN are from people who have set out to build something utterly useless in the name of fun - and sometimes they turn out to be useful after all!

[marginalia_nu]

Try the blog search profile, and if that's still no good, add set it to deny javascript. That reduces quite a lot of noise.