Spotted on Reddit: Insights64, a search engine for chess positions. From the Reddit announcement: “I’ve been toying with this idea for a while and finally came around to it! Its a tool that let’s you find positions in real games (from Lichess only for now) based on specific pieces in the board or specific positional patterns.”

#TIL that longstanding CC image search engine #PixaBay can now be used to search for other kinds of media, including music;

https://pixabay.com/music/

#CC #CCMusic #SearchEngines #CreativeCommons #search

Reuters: Google should allow third-party search engines access to data, EU says. “The European Commission has proposed that Google allow third-party search engines to access its search data, including ‌that of artificial intelligence chatbots with search functionalities, to comply ‌with the Digital Markets Act, the commission said on Thursday.”

That being said ive had a few search failures with waterfox private search, where mysteriously the startpage.com results were just ... better still? Which is bizarre to me, because startpage use's bing's underlying search data; and it's hard for me to believe microsoft has gotten better in that arena than google. However, it's hard to argue with the raw results of my personal experience.

Startpage also seems to have gotten the message of their polling from the other year; and seems to have decided not to roll out LLMs with their search product.

So I think ill be switching back to them, and meditating on donating to waterfox more directly.

#searchEngines #waterfox #google #startpage

I've been experimenting for a few months with using waterfox private search. Which uses google's search data as it's back end, but otherwise keeps your searches private and segregated from google. Partly because I also like their model where you hand someone cash and they just offer you their service add free.

It's confirmed a couple of things I've suspected for a while:

Namely, google's underlying search data is still pretty damn decent. The biggest problem with google is all the enshitification between you and the raw search data. Whichever form they take. LLMs, profit motives of a megacorp, ads, etc. #searchEngines #waterfox #google

#Business #Approaches
Your homepage matters again · AI swings the SEO pendulum back https://ilo.im/16c774

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#SEO #SearchEngines #AI #Brands #Homepages #Conversions #IA #Design #UiDesign #WebDesign

[Marginalia](https://marginalia-search.com/) - An Awesome Independent Search Engine!

- [Unobtanium](https://unobtanium.rocks/) - Search the web a little simpler

- [Stract](https://stract.com/) - Cool idea with lots of optics

- [Lieu](https://lieu.cblgh.org/) - A search engine aimed at searching webrings.

- [Search My Site](https://searchmysite.net/) -Only crawls user-submitted sites instead of trying to discover new sites.

- [Wiby](https://wiby.me/) - A search engine for websites using older technology, great for use on vintage computers.

- [YaCy](https://yacy.net/) - A decentralized search engine;

- [PeARS](https://pearsproject.org/) - A search engine that can be run in the browser, without needing a server.

- [Mojeek](https://www.mojeek.com/) - independent search engine

- [Startpage](https://startpage.com/)

- [Mojeek](https://mojeek.com/)

- [Ecosia](https://ecosia.org/)

- [Qwant](https://www.qwant.com/)

- [GOOD search](https://good-search.org/)

#searchengines #search #find

You know what really grinds my gears? When I look for #Fortinet memes but all I get is #Fortnite memes .

Sometimes I hate modern search engines trying to guess what they think you really meant. I need a good old lexical search for images that includes the whole web regardless of license. @Mojeek only does free licenses using Pixabay and OpenVerse. Which is often great! But sometimes not lol.

#search #searchengines #boos #annoyed #annoying

TechSpot: Google adds search to Play Store reviews to improve app discovery. “Most Android users rely on Play Store reviews to decide which apps to install. But sifting through hundreds – or even thousands – of reviews has rarely been convenient. Google is addressing that with a new search function that lets users find specific information within app reviews, a small but meaningful […]