Comment on Can we create a new Internet ?

Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lustrum@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

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  • Jamie@jamie.moe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I host my own searx instance and use that to search, it supports all of DDG’s bangs by default if you begin a query with a double bang !!

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  • hardypart@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not advocating for Google here, but you can do that with “site: wikipedia.org” as a search operator in Google.

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    • vector_zero@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      DDG’s bangs actually uses the site’s own search feature though, rather than narrowing the search engine’s results to a given site.

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Plus, less typing. That’s a plus for me.

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    • lustrum@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah but that’s slower and not using the sites specific search

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  • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    more for the bangs

    desire to know more intensifies

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  • daredevil@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bangs are awesome, and so are the Vim keybinds

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• GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kagi has a “small web” search option, as well as an RSS feed and bare-bones front-end. blog.kagi.com/small-web

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  • IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kagi has been amazing for me so far. I signed up as soon as they changed the pricing to allow unlimited searches at $10/mo.

    I’m still working on my filters and promoting/demoting/pinning sites in my results, but it’s already night-and-day better than Google and even DuckDuckGo (which still deserves much respect).

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    • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks promising if you’re on a Mac/iOS setup, but I’m on Fedora Linux, so sadly they don’t offer an option for that. If they ever offered Linux support in the future, I’d definitely give Kagi a try.

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• HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People aren't putting content much on the open web as they used to as well. Think the high point was when blogs were a thing, the second high point was during the Geocities et all free webspace peroid.

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