It's more of a way to find interesting things on the "small web".
Please keep that in mind when you check this out.
(I'm not the creator)
That is correct.
But I used[1] to find that in certain niches (Linux and open source software, history) I'd often get significantly better results with Marginalia than with Google or DDG.
This seems to be related both to
- the input stupidifier that seems to be in use with mainstream search engines (if I search for anything unusual it assumes I misspelled or mis-remembered and replace my search with something I didn't search for before sending it to the backend)
- and mainstream engines going out of their way to prefer corporate media over original, authorative content
> It's more of a way to find interesting things on the "small web".
Yes, he keeps saying that, but it was[2] still not just interesting but useful for me.
[1][2]: past tense because I switched to Kagi almost 3 years ago and now I don't have to maintain all the hacks (like separate search engines for separate niche topics) that I used to have. Full disclaimer: I know certain other people frequently want to contest this, saying they get great results with Google or bad results with Kagi, to which all I have to say is I have documented history of Google consistently failing even simple queries going more than a decade back and if Google works for you, more power to you, but it hasn't work reliably for me for over a decade and I am fed up.