submitted 7 months ago by ozoned@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I was discussing this on another post and when we're doing internet searches for any kind of information I feel we should be discussing that on the Fediverse or bringing back the info to the Fediverse.

But some folks brought up some excellent points that Kagi has a Fediverse bang.

I run SearxNG and asked in their Matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org

possiblemeatball pointed out that SearxNG also has a Fediverse !bang . If you go to Preferences - Engines - Social media there are bangs for lemmy comments, lemmy communites, mastodon hashtags, etc. We need to be leveraging this!

What other search engines foster the Fediverse?

I was just pointed to https://fedi-search.com/ which seems awesome, but I haven't leveraged YET!

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[-] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Noice! I am able to find this very thread through searxng, which seems to behave like an actual search engine with its own search results page, but I couldn't find it through fedi-search, which seems to be little more than an auto redirect tool.

[-] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

Awesome! Glad to know it works so well! :-D

[-] kaeurennetwo@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

What is Searx

[-] ozoned@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

SearXNG is a self hosted search. Basically you go to your SearXNG instance, put in your search and it pulls from all kinds of different search engines to give your results.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng