I went to a talk lately that was mostly about something else, but the speaker came out with:

“If you only remember one thing from this talk, remember this. Everyone in this room who likes helping people, raise your hand.”

Every hand, or nearly every hand, went up.

“If you like asking other people for help, keep your hand up.”

Almost every hand went back down.

“As you can see, people like helping you. When you ask for help, you’re making them feel good, even if you don’t like asking.”

I’ve genuinely forgotten the rest of the presentation but I won’t forget that.

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are there practically usable alternates to commercial search engines (e.g. google, bing, duckduckgo)?
Extensive bookmarking / shared curated lists is a partial solution. Any recommendation for cool local bookmarking apps that are browser independent is appreciated as well.
Is Yacy actually usable?
Also poking around in r/degoogle for ideas.

My typical use case for commercial search engines is largely a stepping stone to wiki, known news sites, etc. Occasionally its a "what does the internet know about <topic>"? Short of leveraging a commercial index sitting in a massive server farm, whats the next closest answer?

Is there such a thing as a local search aggregator? I'm thinking that it would fire off search queries to wiki, reddit, specific news sites, (some user definable list of sites), and present the feedback?

Am I missing any major topics or solutions in my search?

#notgoogle