Ariadne Conill 🐰3d ago
the worst thing about the so-called "AI revolution" is that google and duckduckgo are just increasingly useless now
Show threadMoses Izumi3d ago
@ariadne
Around 2023 I started using Startpage, because it's just Google Search without the targeted junk.
Today I'm considering moving away from Startpage, because of Google blatantly gimping their normal results to push auto-generated summaries.
- searxng has good image search, but the text engine tends to feed me random results
- marginalia has a (healthy) bias toward personal and noncommercial websites

Guess I'll have to study @Seirdy 's writeup on search engines more often.
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
A look at search engines with their own indexes

A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.

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Show threadMoses Izumi
@ariadne @Seirdy
For what it's worth, I've used @marginalia 's mirror of Wikipedia more than their search engine.
Mar 28 at 2:58pmWeb