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• Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve tried SearX and stayed there. And it costs me a whole 0€ per month. 10€/month for a search engine is insane.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The Wikipedia page for SearX claims it has been discontinued in 2022. The GitHub repository being archived in 2023 would seem to support that.

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    • Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I meant to say SearXNG. Still being maintained.

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    • Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Whats up with SearXNG?

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  • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, searx and no looking back here too. The only downside is it’s OotB experience isn’t the best, so you should spend a minute configuring it to add more engines than just google. Oh, that and the occasional outages, but they seem to be less common lately.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s gonna stay free forever, you’re totally not externalizing those costs to someone else. You can’t break the laws of thermodynamics

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    • Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Do you know how SearXNG works? It literally pulls search results from whatever other SEs you define it should pull from. You just get to reap the perks of all engines, without having to deal with their antagonistic design.

      Who pays for all of it in the end? The people who still want to use Google’s service and feed their all-reaching tentacles. But that is their choice.

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Google results are dog trash. Bing results are dog trash.

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  • OmegaSunkey@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I only use SearXNG because it loads faster than DDG for me. It parses very very fast on my low end pc, and thats what I wish.

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    • Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s the thing about Sear. You can customise it how you want and that’s it. No need to let some corpo be in control of what and how you see your results.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    k

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I take it that means you feel it’s worth the cost? I have a hard time since search is something I’ve been so used to being free

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Absolutely, I do. You have been paying Google: with your privacy, viewing tons of ads, and manipulation via rigged search results. Fixing that is worth the price to me. I admit it requires a shift in mindset, but I couldn’t go back now.

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  • Sprinks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For me, yes, but thats because im a heavy search engine user and like the customization features. We pay for the duo plan for both my husband and I. My husband doesnt use it much, maybe a handful of searches a week, but me on the otherhand I far exceed the free search limit with how often I search for things. I also love having the ability to block, lower, or raise a specific site in my results. Very satisfying to open up a shit site, see its shit, and then block it from ever appearing in my search results again.

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