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What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by vermyndax@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don't trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What's the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?

Edit: I meant to also express my frustration that most browsers do not let you select a "default search engine" that can be used in the address bar aside from 3-5 pre-chosen engines. Seems like 2023 we should be able to customize that to our own liking.

Edit 2: Thanks for the recommendation of Kagi. I'm going to roll with it for a while. I see they have an extension for Safari that allows them to hijack the address bar, which is just what I needed.

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[-] Faresh@lemmy.ml 25 points 11 months ago

I use SearXNG. It is a meta search engine so it use results from various other search engines and you can specify which with !. It does the job for me.

[-] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

My favourite feature is that you can host it yourself, you can even set it up to search over tor or VPN if you're super privacy conscious.

[-] ____@infosec.pub 6 points 11 months ago

I was a bit wary when I first spun up an instance, but it’s very low maintenance and mostly just works.

Does it choke in some edge cases? Yeah, but far less often than I had expected. For my own use case it’s low resource and does exactly what it says on the tin - nothing more, nothing less.

It’s my default across a variety of devices, and is perfectly happy behind basic auth and a minimal nginx conf.

Occasionally I’ve even surfaced some oddball results that give me unexpected perspective on a topic.

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

Somebody reply to this so I remember to spin up a container tomorrow lmao

[-] heyfrancis@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Try remindme bot - https://github.com/PangoraWeb/remindme-bot#usage

[-] zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Hey, remember to spin up a container!

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

I did, thanks! 😛 Took a few tries but was over complicating the configs apparently lol

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Honestly I feel like searxng is way better than it gets credit for. It clearly isn’t as powerful as google but it isn’t drowning in SEO crap so that difference is entirely negated and then some.

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