Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 2 days ago
Honestly someone should spin up a small web index. You can isolate yourself to a nice corner of the Internet and ignore the rest of the toxic mess.
Yes. I want an old school sewrch engine that JUST does blogs and small websites. And no “Big News Website Blogs”. Just random people on Wordpress and Blogger, etc.
I was browsing a Geocities archive the other day and its just like, fuck I miss when the web was just fun and random people making dumb websites about random shit.
I found some sites with this concept:
https://wiby.me/ https://www.oldavista.com/ https://sloop.nz/ https://marginalia-search.com/
RIP Frogfind
isnt that the point of neocities?
Back in my day, I had an internet butler do that for me.
searchmysite.net and search.marginalia.nu are both kinda interesting. I don’t know that their models scale particularly well, but in some ways they don’t have to
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Kagi, the premium paid search engine, has a “small web” feature that is exactly this