FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://marginalia-search.com/

Staff at the Eiffel Tower are on strike.

A Hindu religious group booked for a private tour demanded that female staff were "set aside" during their visit. Management complied.

"As ‌the delegation passed ⁠through, women were asked to leave their workstations so that men could take their places."

Hopefully the strike will help management realise that misogyny and religious fanaticism should never be allowed to infect their workplace again.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/strike-shuts-eiffel-tower-after-female-staff-hidden-during-religious-visit/PR7CCHFO4FHYBJHTPCBTSHAJAY/

#Paris #Eiffel #Hindu