www.marginalia.nu

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🔗 Search Engine
🔗 Encyclopedia (not mobile-friendly!)
🔗 Website Explorer^improved
🔗 Similar Website Finder
🔗 Server Status

My name is Viktor. I’m a Swedish software engineer and hypertext enjoyer. Marginalia is a website I’ve built. It’s really almost a bunch of websites on a common theme. If you find yourself clicking a link and ending up on a page that looks completely different, that’s just how things are.

🌎 Marginalia Search on GitHub
🦤 @MarginaliaNu on Twitter
🦤 @marginalia@mastodon.social
📺 @ViktorLofgren on YouTube
✉️ kontakt@marginalia.nu on Email

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Recent Updates

2026-01-31 Trust in Ranking in log

The Marginalia Search default ranking algorithm recently saw a fairly radical improvement, due to a new domain trust system that drastically reduces the number of content farm results, as long as there are human results it usually finds them across all the usual test queries. Recently fixing a few bugs that made the search engine work more correctly had the unexpected and undesired side-effect of also making it surface more search engine spam and content farm-type results.

2026-01-28 You should probably tell your audience what your blog posts are about as early as possible in log

Being clear about what your blog posts are about lets people who are interested in what you have to say find your writing more easily. The more paragraphs you spend getting to the point, the bigger the odds they’ll lose patience and click on something else before you’ve presented your thesis. When publishing articles online, no matter how obscure the subject matter, there is almost always some people who will be into what you have to say.

2025-12-08 New Search Filtering in Web and API in log

The search engine recently exposed a fair number of new tools for custom filtering to the API consumers and users of the new UI. This was originally going to be an incredibly chaotic update, both annuncing the new features and doing a technical walkthrough of the changes but that ambition turned out a bit too chaotic, so let’s split them up and focus on the feature announcement bit today. New Search Filtering GUI It’s now possible to define a custom filter in the GUI, on the marginalia-search.

2025-10-06 Language Support for Marginalia Search in log

One of the big ambitions for the search engine this year has been to enable searching in more languages than English, and a pilot project for this has just been completed, allowing experimental support for German, French and Swedish. These changes are now live for testing, but with an extremely small corpus of documents. As the search engine has been up to this point built with English in mind, some anglo-centric assumptions made it into its code.

2025-09-06 The CoPilot productivity paradox in log

I’ve been using the CoPilot plugin for IntelliJ on and off for the last few years, and while initially pretty enthusiastic, I’ve come to first disable it and then delete it altogether along with JetBrains’ local AI-completions, and generally felt this has been an improvement in productivity and a reduction of frustration. CoPilot is pretty good at taking things that are already pretty fast, such as monotonous code transformations like mapping an object to a SQL statement, and then making that even faster.

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