A lot of people have been pointing out that Google Search feels like it's been getting worse recently. With more ads, fewer relevant articles, and blog posts...
+1 for kagi. I think they have a smaller subscription too. Also not too long ago they changed the 10$ subscription from 700 searches/month to unlimited, which gives hope that they might improve the pricing over time.
As a side note, it is surprising how many searches one does during the month! I thought I did thousands per month, turns out I am always between 200 and 400!
It was surprising for me how many searches I do in the opposite way. Thought I did hundreds per month, ended up being between 2,000 and 3,000.
I am one of those people who constantly thinks of questions and looks it up. Which makes me think of another question.
With Kagi I can actually find the answer though. On Google I could do several searches and still not find anything besides ads and ai generated fake content.
I guess with meta(sh*t) trying to extort their user base for a monthly subscription service fee just for privacy in the eu, paying for a search engine could make sense…
I selfhost a SearXNG instance in my homelab. It aggregates results from multiple sites, works without JavaScript and filters out all tracking, AMP bullshit and so on.
It is important to run it at home, Google tends to blacklist VPS address ranges, and if you have a public instance, you’ll get rate limited quite fast.
I did that a while ago but always ran in timeouts for some search engines (varied from time to time). Also the order of search results is often completely fucked up. And sometimes I search for something and got something completely different. For example I searched for something like “open source software” and the search results were filled with porn lol.
Also what’s bad about self hosting this in your home network is that your SearXNG instance does the searches from your home network of course. That means all the searches to all the selected search engines like Google, Bing etc. are made from your IP which is counterproductive when it’s privacy you’re trying to achieve.
But how can you trust anything brave says? Fool me once, shame on you, full me twice, shame on me, try and fool me thrice…nah, the joke is you > bravebrowser…
I thought this place is to get away from imperialist capitalism big tech privacy violators and abusers.
Ya it’s such crap results nowadays. What do you guys use for your default search engine? I like ddg.
Kagi is great but it’s a subscription based platform ($10/month). Well worth it, at least for me.
+1 for kagi. I think they have a smaller subscription too. Also not too long ago they changed the 10$ subscription from 700 searches/month to unlimited, which gives hope that they might improve the pricing over time.
As a side note, it is surprising how many searches one does during the month! I thought I did thousands per month, turns out I am always between 200 and 400!
It was surprising for me how many searches I do in the opposite way. Thought I did hundreds per month, ended up being between 2,000 and 3,000.
I am one of those people who constantly thinks of questions and looks it up. Which makes me think of another question.
With Kagi I can actually find the answer though. On Google I could do several searches and still not find anything besides ads and ai generated fake content.
Yup, they have a $5 monthly plan as well which I utilize.
Thx I’ll look into.
Edit: I’m not to familiar yet with Lemmy, so I hope that this thank you comment reach’s everyone that replied. Appreciate the knowledge sharing.
I guess with meta(sh*t) trying to extort their user base for a monthly subscription service fee just for privacy in the eu, paying for a search engine could make sense…
Much obliged, i shall take a look at this kagi.
DDG used to use Google and is now Bing on the backend.
Did not know that. Much obliged.
I selfhost a SearXNG instance in my homelab. It aggregates results from multiple sites, works without JavaScript and filters out all tracking, AMP bullshit and so on.
It is important to run it at home, Google tends to blacklist VPS address ranges, and if you have a public instance, you’ll get rate limited quite fast.
I did that a while ago but always ran in timeouts for some search engines (varied from time to time). Also the order of search results is often completely fucked up. And sometimes I search for something and got something completely different. For example I searched for something like “open source software” and the search results were filled with porn lol.
Also what’s bad about self hosting this in your home network is that your SearXNG instance does the searches from your home network of course. That means all the searches to all the selected search engines like Google, Bing etc. are made from your IP which is counterproductive when it’s privacy you’re trying to achieve.
Whoaw! Neato! Dos it cost anything to self host?
A spare computer (e.g. a rpi), tailscale (free) and a bit of time to set up.
Sounds like a fun project. That’s really cool sounding. Thx
I did a ton of homelab stuff this weekend, planning to write everything down eventually and publish it somewhere…
I hope you do! Can you pls add a link to this comment chain if or when you do. Id be interested in learning more.
I’m using ddg. It used to be noticeably worse than google; now Google is noticeably worse than ddg.
I kinda like Brave’s search
But how can you trust anything brave says? Fool me once, shame on you, full me twice, shame on me, try and fool me thrice…nah, the joke is you > bravebrowser…
I thought this place is to get away from imperialist capitalism big tech privacy violators and abusers.