Duckduckgo does not cut it. Bing … no thanks Searx: dunno, how is your experience with it?

thanks

  • Seirdy@lemmy.ml
    12·
    2 years ago

    Not at all; there are tons of newish engines out there, the best of which are trying to carve out a niche for themselves in an area that Google and Bing ignore. I listed 44 English engines with their own indexes, along with some for other languages which I’m unfortunately unable to review because I don’t speak the langs required.

    On these engines, you won’t get far if you use natural language queries or expect the engine to make inferences. Use broad terms and keywords instead. I recommend giving Mojeek, Marginalia, Teclis, Petal (bad privacy, but usable through Searx), Kagi, and Alexandria a try.

    • Amicese@lemmy.ml
      37·
      2 years ago

      Petal Search. A search engine by Huawei that recently switched from searching for Android apps to general search in order to reduce dependence on Western search providers. Despite its surprisingly good results, I wouldn’t recommend it due to privacy concerns…

      *lists Google Search, the most antiprivacy search engine by an advertising company*

      The hypocrisy in that statement is unreal…

  • XpeeN
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’m using searx for at least a year now and it’s great.

    I also heard recommendation about whoogle, and you can also check out brave search.

  • Dochyo@lemmy.ml
    6·
    2 years ago

    I had some trouble adopting Searx, but once I found out about Searxng I was able to handle that. A little bit of presentation made the difference.

  • privacyn@feddit.it
    4·
    2 years ago

    It seems search engines are becoming less important for researching online, we now focus more on social media or specific websites. Often, I search directly on reddit, imdb, twitter or mastodon, spotify, youtube, stack overflow etc. For the rest, I use Qwant as the main and I’m quite ok with it

  • androidul@lemmy.ml
    51·
    2 years ago

    Sorry if I upset anyone, but why DDG does not cut it? I’ve been using it so far, and the !bangs are one thing I’d miss in any search engine nowadays which I never found. I’ve tried Ecosia, but as an Engineer who doesn’t want to waste time, I’ve missed the !bangs

    • Evg@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      I tried making my own search engine based on Nutch (sometime around 2000).

      We created a directory of sites, with a strict selection, because. had experience in administering Dmoz, but these sites that were added to our catalog were indexed. Not deep, just 1 click from the main page.

      But then we did not have enough capacity to carry out a good search.

      Now I’m thinking about getting back to it. As part of one project that I am writing now (MIT license. Directory example: https://libarea.ru/web). We are experimenting, learning, facets for navigation, we will fasten the search later, there is still a lot of work.

  • PicoBlaanket@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    The key (for google) is to use search parameters. Such as…

    site:stackoverflow.com “javascript” “header”

    • site:stackoverflow.com - includes only stackoverflow.com results.
    • “javascript” “header” - those terms must exist on a webpage, for it to be included in search results.

    And Startpage gives the same results as Google, but without trackers or AMP results (via an automatic proxy)