Comment on Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 year agoWhat is the alternative if we need a searchable index of the internet? Self host? Participate in a community driven swarm? Is that possible or even feasible for us to do? I’d love to see such a thing. It would be quite interesting to learn about the architecture of it, especially ways that the tech prevents gaming the search results, but I have yet to see something like that.
Or are you suggesting that internet search should be done by a non-profit or government agency that we fund with tax dollars?
pirat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you figure out how to search “correctly” on SearXNG instances, some of them are pretty good (though they source part of their results from google). That’s how I search most of the time nowadays. I’ve found a favourite instance and a few backups. My most important advice is: to change the default language from “auto” to “en”, and only change it to some other locale for results specifically in that language/country.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If I understand correctly, isn’t that just a meta search that is using corporate results as the back end?
pirat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is indeed, but in my experience it’s somehow better than the corporate backends at presenting the “correct” results to me.
detectivesniffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
this has been my experience with paulgo.io with the exception of images, which i sometimes have to use google for