SearxNG, much like original SearX, pulls data from a variety of search engines, reducing their bias, and also has great filtering options, including filters for academic/IT/social/etc.
Aside from that, it is decentralized and private. Everyone can kickstart their own SearX server, though it might need some minimal juice to work quickly.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because google is a turd sandwich?
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
You’re giving no information other than “switch”, I’m trying to prompt you to give an actual critique, and what you like about it that would get people to switch.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Aha. Well, so far I’m finding that it gives better results than I’ve been getting from google in years. I mostly search programming or linux related questions. It’s another metasearch engine which goes through multiple search engines and presents you with the results it thinks are relevant. It will show you which search engine(s) it pulled each result from as well. Seems to almost completely get rid of blogspam and advertisements and just return real information.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
and Google is a turd sandwich.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
google controls the portals through which many people search. Defaults will always be google when people are using android and or chrome. Yahoo, infoseek or altavista never had anywhere near a grip on people like google does today. It takes effort to change now, while in the olden days you just had to change your 1 start page on the browser, things are a lot more embedded and thus customers locked in. Thinking it will switch over to a better alternative like it did back then, purely because it is a lot better, is a bit naive I think, unfortunately.