schratzeDoes anyone have recommendations for a search engine that still searches for the thing you actually entered into the field instead of some other shit
Bill, organizer of stuff@schratze I just look at all of the pages on the Internet and determine which will meet my needs. It's slow, but it's ineffective!
Knut Morå@schratze kinda like kagi kagi.com/, but it is a paid service after some searches.
I really like that I can weight the search towards academic, programming etc with little profiles.
I really like that I can weight the search towards academic, programming etc with little profiles.
skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸
SudoNaaame@schratze I use duck duck go since I decided google was actually evil. I have no complaints.
Javier@schratze I used to like duck duck go, but it became little more than a thin layer on top of bing. When the same ads started showing, I removed it.
Tired searXng for a while, but the theme is unreadable and fixed, so that just didn't work.
Now I'm using mojeek, which is nice since they have their own crawler and index. It's simple and limited but seems to work well.
Lisa@schratze https://brave.com/learn/no-tracking-search-engine/
I've never heard of half of these but I use ddg as well
I've never heard of half of these but I use ddg as well
Guillaume Ross@schratze I've been trying Kagi for about 2 months now and I have not rage-quit it yet, which is my usual experience trying search engines. It's paid though, and I actually busted through my paid account this month by 2-3 days :/
Coffee Pinewood@schratze Did you mean? Flying Bean Boglins?
Mitex Leo
Simon de Boudoir
Kinetix
Eli the Bearded@schratze I'm pessimistic about the future of those given how much index space it takes up paid for by one entity versus the "dilute results with my knockoff site for ad dollars" distributed denial of service attacks
swym@schratze I'm not actively using it for general search so not necessarily a recommendation, but: https://searchlab.eu/ is built on YaCy, which is a decentralized search engine with a P2P protocol, building a shared index.
The UI is not as polished as gg or DDG but you can choose different interfaces - you can even have your results as raw JSON if you like ;)
https://searchlab.eu/en/apps/data_studio/
The UI is not as polished as gg or DDG but you can choose different interfaces - you can even have your results as raw JSON if you like ;)
https://searchlab.eu/en/apps/data_studio/
Niklas
girl who fucks@schratze I've never once had this issue
Shy bunny@schratze Startpage is about the best compromise at present, I'm finding. Still Google underneath, but at least they shield you from their worst excesses. Similarly Ecosia, which is basically Bing.
Jeri Dansky@schratze I just started using Kagi a few days ago, based on recommendations here, and so far I'm quite happy. I'm paying $5/month, which seems well worth it. (There's a free option so you can give it a try.)
Edit: No longer using Kagi; see https://sfba.social/@jeridansky/111722081869975338
Jeri Dansky (@[email protected])
Today's bit of irony: Like many others, I dropped #Kagi as my search engine after it announced its affiliation with Brave (which has an odious CEO) & replied poorly to objections. So now I'm trying @[email protected], which is one of the few with its own index. It doesn't run ads (although it has in the past), doesn't have paid subscriptions like Kagi does & hasn't taken VC money. So I wrote & asked how it stays afloat. Reply from its CEO: "We have an income from API customers, for example Kagi."
Piko Starsider 
@schratze I use DDG but frequently "adding" "quotes" around "important" "words"
Jon (Snarf) Mason@schratze a mix of ecosia and startpage.com
Brian Marick@schratze @vy I sometimes use https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonagent for searching. It’s targeted at researchers, so it may have biases (like toward original sources) that conventional search engines don’t. It doesn’t appear as a text field in the browser window, which makes me use it a lot less.
Nicolas Delsaux@schratze https:/duckduckgo.com