renzev@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoM*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusablelemmy.worldimagemessage-square256fedilinkarrow-up11.47Karrow-down129file-text
arrow-up11.45Karrow-down1imageM*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusablelemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square256fedilinkfile-text
It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing
minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoAll of them. It shows you which ones “agree” on a given entry, so you can tune it to your tastes.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoAccording to the docs, SearxNG supports 209 search engines, and 85 are enabled by default (https://docs.searxng.org/user/configured_engines.html). I guess you mean you’re using those defaults? Does it work well out-of-the-box? I’ve been meaning to test it myself!
minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-27 days agoNo, I did change it, IIRC I enabled a lot of the ones that weren’t by default. I haven’t felt the need to use anything else in months, so I’d say it’s very much fit for purpose. You can always check out one of the instances available for free use to see how it performs.
All of them.
It shows you which ones “agree” on a given entry, so you can tune it to your tastes.
According to the docs, SearxNG supports 209 search engines, and 85 are enabled by default (https://docs.searxng.org/user/configured_engines.html). I guess you mean you’re using those defaults?
Does it work well out-of-the-box? I’ve been meaning to test it myself!
No, I did change it, IIRC I enabled a lot of the ones that weren’t by default.
I haven’t felt the need to use anything else in months, so I’d say it’s very much fit for purpose.
You can always check out one of the instances available for free use to see how it performs.