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Tired of duckduckgo using MSN's amp thing for news or blocking some websites, and it's now adding shit AI too. Don't want to spend any money running a searxng instance for the time being and most public instances are too overwhelmed.

Any suggestions? Doesn't need to be perfect, just not too annoying.

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[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

I’ve found Kagi has been good enough to justify the subscription price. I like that I can block certain sites, pin and promote others. It has some neat AI features but they only activate when requested and never replace actual results.

[-] plm00@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

I tried it out after getting a referral code from somebody I know granting a 3 month trial. I've been hooked. It's the first search engine that has rivaled Google search, it's so good. I'm often disappointed with DDG (switching to Google later to find what I need), and Mojeek never finds anything. SearXNG has been very close, but is essentially an aggregator, not exactly a Google replacement.

Kudos to Kagi for getting it right.

[-] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Mojeek never finds anything.

Got any examples we can look into?

[-] yuki@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

If i search something in a language other than EN/DE/FR... I couldn't find anything. This is very frustrating for an Asian user

[-] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

which languages are you searching in? It's likely that they are as-of-yet unsupported. There are a lot of languages we crawl and index in which aren't en/de/fr but non-neo-latin languages are not currently available.

[-] yuki@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Japanese mostly, not a neo latin language.

[-] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

for the moment it's just not in the crawl; I will add +1 into the "add Japanese" column off the back of this interaction

[-] yuki@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks for doing this! Kudos:) & I believe that many users also look forward to search in Chinese and Korean

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