Search, Find, Surpise

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There's no Internet activity without you searching for something each day. We all know the big names, and some lesser known (if you ever cared and looked-up for such). The choice of such search engines as technically described is no doubt purely personal, with the level of confidence invested to find exactly what's being looked-up.

Some don't mind getting tracked through this seemingly simple activity, some are wary and some don't even know of such behind the scene and are comfortable clicking anything pulled down.

There are times when we try looking out for alternatives. One of those attempts led me to Marginalia, described as: This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.

It's not a regular search aid for the usual questions or for a long body of words, but works well with associated keywords, and well suited for text-based sites. The choices of finding are set to
Popular sites
Blogs and Personal websites
Academia, Forums Big websites
Default Ranking Algorithm
Experimental

I liked the results that include unknown and older sites (unfortunately most being still on http protocol with the browser warning you!), giving an insight to something extra, useful but never heard of than the usual graphics-filled - each crying for attention...