• @hperrin
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    2711 months ago

    What am I looking at here?

    • ???OP
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      1911 months ago

      The top result is the resume of the Unabomber for President political action committee UNAPACK

      • @dingus
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        611 months ago

        Why do you think that ended up as the top result?

        • ???OP
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          11 months ago

          The word “resume” + being an old and solid link + me using a search engine with settings that allow you to customize which places to search, and I’m not returning results from all major search engines and only keeping alternative ones.

          This works fine for work or when coding. It searches Stack Overflow and forums, immensely useful when trying to research things or solve problems.

  • @damnthefilibuster
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    611 months ago

    Is there a search engine that stores generic search vector information in a p2p fashion and allows users to search so that their local and then other people’s remotes get searched in that order?

    • @Chocrates
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      211 months ago

      Yacy is the only one I have heard of and I hear that it is terrible. I set it up myself maybe 20 years ago when I was still on dial up and it wasn’t great, but I thought it was because of my shitty network and computer by who knows. I’m very interested in one, I have been using duck duck to but that is just a layer on top of Google afaik

      • @damnthefilibuster
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        111 months ago

        Duck duck is a layer on top of Bing. Thanks for the link to Yacy.

        • @Chocrates
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          211 months ago

          Let me know if you find one. Searxng is neat but it, like DDG, seems to just be a self hosted layer on top of the big players

      • ???OP
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        111 months ago

        Yep that is the one, but I customized which engines I get results from and decided that almost all major ones have sucked so I took them all out (the four horsemen, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Brace)

  • @[email protected]
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    111 months ago

    i use Kagi. its paid but it is so refreshing not getting ads and being able to tune the search results.

    • ???OP
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      111 months ago

      Looks interesting, I’m considering it

  • @[email protected]
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    -411 months ago

    Maybe you should add brave search in the search engines that searxng use. I’m using it since almost one year and except for images I never had weird results

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      Oh and I don’t know if qwant is really good for English searches since it’s a French search engine(however it is almost perfect for french searches)

    • ???OP
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      111 months ago

      I removed it on purpose. Trying my best to rely on any search engine other than Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Bing.

      • @Holyginz
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        111 months ago

        Why not duckduckgo? I’d been using them since I had heard they were good and can be trusted for the most part.

        • ???OP
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          111 months ago

          I used to use it but honestly grew tired of getting the same search results. The same Medium article, the same video, the same news report at the top. I often feel like I only see the tip of the iceberg, and often never find what I need.