Search engines put their money on computation, or to use today’s parlance, algorithms (or if you’re really shameless, AI). Directories put their money on humans. Good ol’ information architecture.

It turned out that computation scaled faster than humans. Search won out over directories.

Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.

Are search results getting worse? Yes, they are. Also, Marginalia is quite nice. Maybe I should give it a go as my main search engine?

Opt-in Fediverse search. Users individually can join too.