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Comment by marginalia_nu

> Holy shit, so you are uh building a search engine from scratch.

Yup

> Do you crawl yourself?

Yup

> What is your infrastructure?

All custom built in Java, sitting on a rack server in a basement in Sweden.

> What is your goal for search.marginalia ?

I'm basically building what I feel is lacking in internet search and discovery, which is tools for finding stuff based on something other than a popularity metric, as those tend to feed into themselves to make the web seem so small.

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