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[kradeelav]

there is nothing quite as mildly (this is def first world problems) but profoundly irritating to search up the word "muse" while looking for interesting offbeat woo woo articles and/or historical wikipedia pages to devour and getting nothing a gazillion results on how to monetize creativity and/or spirituality, or those godforsaken "seven tips to awaken the muse bla bla-" listicles

it's really just such a perfect picture of the "larger" web vs the weird one i've (and most likely, you, given you're on this site) burrowed myself in lol

auuugh fuck the monetization ...

maybe https://search.marginalia.nu/ will have something better ...

edit: score, look at these glorious links - oh yea baby, exactly what I was looking for. never going back to a corporate search engine lol

(anyway may type up a dreamwidth style post about this in an anthology zine on spirituality and liminality? more maybe soon. I'll probably salvage it for something else even if that specific anthology falls through.)

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[ettina]

When "topic I'm interested in" and "topic I find annoying" share search key words, it always annoys me, too.

[vsitante]

Don't forget looking for image references and, depending on what you're looking for, having maybe 5 decent images and then the rest are from Pinterest (and under that, if you're lucky to find a Pinterest search that sourced its images...)

It's been pretty interesting to see what I was taught in the one library class I had to take for credit, become either something to adapt or completely disregard. And that was only about....15 years ago. Ay yi yi.

Haven't tried marginalia myself but I'll have to take a look!

[kradeelav]

oh lord, just went through that whole image search last night when looking up hawk references, you absolutely aren't wrong at all. x.x

time flies, doesn't it? I think you'll like that site - it's got the real spirit of the old web, and whoever curates it is a genius for keeping it like so.