Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google.

• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago

    I meant to say SearXNG. Still being maintained.

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  • Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Whats up with SearXNG?

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t lose sleep over having to add “reddit” or “forum” at the end of my search query.

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• OmegaSunkey@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago

  k

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