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Marginalia is better suited for semantic searches that require specific thoughts or explanations.

Search EnginesAITechnologyUser ExperienceOct 11, 2026score 0.292 posts · 1 replies across 1 instances
The user discusses their experience with two search engines, marginalia and duckduckgo, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses in different search scenarios. They mention that marginalia excels in semantic searches for specific thoughts but struggles with mainstream information, while duckduckgo provides comprehensive results but often includes AI-generated content. The user also notes issues with mistyping and the difficulty of finding information in marginalia.

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Marginalia is better suited for semantic searches that require specific thoughts or explanations.
Parent: Search EnginesEntity: MarginaliaImpact: positiveDate: Oct 11, 2026Target: Marginalia's effectiveness in semantic searches
Duckduckgo provides comprehensive search results but often includes AI-generated content.
Parent: Search EnginesEntity: DuckduckgoImpact: negativeDate: Oct 11, 2026Target: Duckduckgo's search results quality
AI-generated content in search results is often generic and not useful for specific queries.
Parent: AI TechnologyEntity: AI-generated contentImpact: negativeDate: Oct 11, 2026Target: AI-generated content usefulness

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I heave been actively using @marginalia search as a main search engine for a while. If marginalia doesn't work, I fallback to NO-AI duckduckgo. Some thoughts on this: * I think there are two searches types I do. One where I want specific thoughts on people or plain explanations. The other is about "mainstream" stuff and plain on the nose things widely available. #Marginalia excels a lot on the first type, but not much on the other. DDG goes the other way, so they complement each other. 1/3
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#marginalia
@[email protected]
@marginalia * We are pretty used to semantic search aren't we? Getting back to keyword search in #marginalia is weird, but I don't mind. It does respect my quotes and minuses, which is awesome. * DDG search results are comprehensive, but most of the time is #AIGen garbage, or generic stuff. * Is hard to find things in marginalia in general, but they are always gold. * I tend to mistype a lot, and its a bit annoying when i mistype a word and won't find stuff. That's mostly on me though. 2/3
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#marginalia#aigen