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Any “small-web” search engines? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I use Duckduckgo, but I realised these big(ish) search engines give me all the commercialised results. Duckduckgo has been going down the slope for years, but not at such a rate as Google or Bing has.

I want to have a search engine that gives me all the small blogs and personal sites.

Does something like this exist?

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[–] fpslem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mojeek

Thanks for the rec, I'll give Mojeek a try for a while. So far the results seem better than Brave (which I didn't seriously consider using regularly anyway) but I miss the bang options (!w, !yt, etc.) that DDG has.

[–] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

our Search Choices might be of use here, different implementation but similar: https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedom-to-seek.html

[–] fpslem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

our Search Choices might be of use here

Thanks, I think that's a valuable option! It's probably not what I was looking for. As I understand it, the "bang" use is just a way to use the search on a specific webpage, and is just a nice little hack to speed up searches on commonly used websites (i.e., Wikipedia, YouTube, BBC, etc.) I can probably get used to going straight to those sites, but it was a feature that got me using DDG at first and broke my reliance on Google.

[–] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Choices do this very thing, you click a button and the search in the bar goes to that site, if you have this enabled in the search bar. If not they are present at the bottom of the results.

We are in the process of open sourcing the library of choices so they are user-submitted.