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Sunday 26 January 2025, 20:43

albigu
Sunday 26 January 2025, 20:43

What search engines do you use?

Tired of duckduckgo using MSN's amp thing for news or blocking some websites, and it's now adding shit AI too. Don't want to spend any money running a searxng instance for the time being and most public instances are too overwhelmed.

Any suggestions? Doesn't need to be perfect, just not too annoying.

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elbowgrease

in reply to albigu Sunday 26 January 2025, 20:54

just started using Firefox with ublock origin for the same reason. I run the kagi plug-in on Firefox so I can tailor my search engine preferences (kagi.com/). I go back and forth between those two mostly.

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Mark

in reply to albigu Sunday 26 January 2025, 21:26

I would recommend @Mojeek Search Engine as a fully independent engine without any of those "bonus" features.

@Mojeek Search Engine

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some_guy

in reply to albigu Sunday 26 January 2025, 21:35

Kagi seems to be really good, according to John Gruber. I don’t do enough web searches to need an alternative or justify paying for a subscription, so it’s all third-hand for me.

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bamboo

in reply to albigu Sunday 26 January 2025, 22:01

I’ve found Kagi has been good enough to justify the subscription price. I like that I can block certain sites, pin and promote others. It has some neat AI features but they only activate when requested and never replace actual results.

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plm00

in reply to bamboo Monday 27 January 2025, 01:20

I tried it out after getting a referral code from somebody I know granting a 3 month trial. I've been hooked. It's the first search engine that has rivaled Google search, it's so good. I'm often disappointed with DDG (switching to Google later to find what I need), and Mojeek never finds anything. SearXNG has been very close, but is essentially an aggregator, not exactly a Google replacement.

Kudos to Kagi for getting it right.

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Mojeek Search Engine

in reply to plm00 Monday 27 January 2025, 08:28 (Received Monday 27 January 2025, 09:18)

Mojeek never finds anything.

Got any examples we can look into?

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plm00

in reply to Mojeek Search Engine Monday 27 January 2025, 15:17

That's a hard one to answer without losing anonymity. It's with contextual searching, like X business in Y town, or looking up specific or niche software tools. I occasionally give Mojeek a fair shot, then switch away when I can't find what I'm looking for. If you'd like, I'll keep track of those instances and email you with examples, is that helpful?

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Mojeek Search Engine

in reply to plm00 Tuesday 28 January 2025, 08:38

That would be helpful, yes; there is a "submit feedback" button on results pages which allows you to send it directly to us if that works.

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yuki

in reply to Mojeek Search Engine Tuesday 28 January 2025, 15:53

If i search something in a language other than EN/DE/FR... I couldn't find anything. This is very frustrating for an Asian user

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Mojeek Search Engine

in reply to yuki Wednesday 29 January 2025, 07:53

which languages are you searching in? It's likely that they are as-of-yet unsupported. There are a lot of languages we crawl and index in which aren't en/de/fr but non-neo-latin languages are not currently available.

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yuki

in reply to Mojeek Search Engine Wednesday 29 January 2025, 08:11

Japanese mostly, not a neo latin language.

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Mojeek Search Engine

in reply to yuki Wednesday 29 January 2025, 10:11

for the moment it's just not in the crawl; I will add +1 into the "add Japanese" column off the back of this interaction

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yuki

in reply to Mojeek Search Engine Wednesday 29 January 2025, 10:40

Thanks for doing this! Kudos:) & I believe that many users also look forward to search in Chinese and Korean

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Boomkop3

in reply to bamboo Tuesday 28 January 2025, 05:44

I wish they'd just stop wasting their time on ai

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bamboo

in reply to Boomkop3 Tuesday 28 January 2025, 17:23

I use the assistant, because it has so many models to choose from. I hope they can make a mobile app for it in the future

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Boomkop3

in reply to bamboo Tuesday 28 January 2025, 17:56

It works in a web browser, especially ez if you enable the quick assist

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Boomkop3

in reply to bamboo Tuesday 28 January 2025, 17:56

I don't like how ai tends to be a lot worse and slower at fact checking and searching than me

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Diddlydee

in reply to albigu Sunday 26 January 2025, 22:34

Google. Never had any issues. Scroll past the AI bullshit in a second.

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JackGreenEarth

in reply to albigu Sunday 26 January 2025, 22:41

I use DuckDuckGo. AI isn't bad inherently, just the proprietary, censored, corporate stuff. DuckDuckGo's AI isn't forced on you, is private, open weights, and less censored than the main players.