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They don't disappear just because Google no longer surfaces them. May I suggest marginalia search for your small web needs? https://marginalia-search.com/

I tried marginalia but the index is still small.

It still haven't index my blog but have indexed my root homepage, which has a direct link to the blog.

There are steps to submit it manually: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/submit-site-to-marginali...

Those died a long time ago though

Most of my online usage is browsing forums and reference materials. Hell, I'm responding to you on a forum.

I don't think they're dead at all.

I just wonder what the cost of the enshittification of the web to humanity is.

There was a time where I could type a loose query about anything I didn't know, and get its Wikipedia page, forums and blogs full of knowledgeable people, scientific articles and academia pages, where all knowledge was a few seconds of typing away.

Now... I don't even bother to Google things anymore. It's all SEO spam, AI slop, and ghostwritten articles whose content is secondary to the business they advertise.

If anything LLMs democratize it because I can search for exactly the blog I want using a semantic query.