Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature

Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Aatube@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this really such an essential feature when archive.today exists?

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really but I’m disgusted with the continual downgrading of Google Search and it’s hyper-focus on increasing profitability at the cost of user experience and data privacy.

    I was already toying with searXNG anyway, so it’s not a big leap.

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    • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A few months back Ruud stood up a copy: searxng.world

      I’ve been using it, and it tends to be as good as or better than google’s search. There’s only been a handful of instances where I’ve explicitly used google’s.

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      • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks, I’ll give it a try. I’ve been using search.work to play with the tech and I’m almost satisfied enough to stand up my own instance.

        One thing that’s annoying me though is how difficult FireFox makes it to use a searxng instance as your default search engine. The best I could come up with to date is installing a dodgy plug-in made by a student in China.

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