What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding “reddit” or whatever internet community to the results?

  • BaroqueInMind
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    1 year ago

    Use a decentralized SearXNG instance and have it query every search engine that exists on the internet, or host your own of you’re really actually worried about privacy, and never look back.

    • @hypna
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      111 year ago

      I just tried two of the instances listed with a search for “how to filter mineral spirits”, and they both gave me errors. Both Google and DDG gave me an answer. Is there some trick I’m missing here?

      • Sam
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        31 year ago

        The instances get overloaded quickly and the IPs blocked by google/Microsoft/etc… Better off self-hosting.

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ
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      81 year ago

      +1 for SearXNG. I’ve personally found mostly better results, for my use cases, than Google or duckduckgo, although I keep DDG as a backup.

    • @DRx
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      61 year ago

      +1 for SearXNG… I run my own instance in docker, and host it through a cloud flare tunnel. I set all my “web browser bars” on all my devices to auto use its address, so I don’t even have to think about it, and all my searches are auto routed through my instance. It’s Great!

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      SearXNG is great.

      I think the features I’m missing are easily adding more engines (haven’t looked much into it), and automatically blacklisting domains from coming up in searches.