A Search Engine Designed To Surprise You

“Marginalia” up-ranks sites that are text-heavy — with truly offbeat results. Call it “serendipity engineering”

Clive Thompson
OneZero
Published in
5 min readSep 16, 2021

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Surprise!

Hey nerds: I recently stumbled across “Marginalia Search”. It’s a search engine with a fascinating design — rather than give you exactly what you’re looking for, it tries to surprise you.

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Clive Thompson
OneZero

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net