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[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've switched from DuckDuckGo to Ghostery Private search. I've been happier with the results than DDG.

[–] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm using SEARXNG. It's a search engine aggrigate and you can mix and match where you want your results to come from. It's like using Google from a decade ago.

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I remember discovering MetaCrawler in the 90s (before Google was even founded) and it quickly became the go-to search engine because its aggregate results were superior to any of the other options at the time. I don’t think its source mix was tunable, but that sounds like appropriate progress for 30 years.

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. That seems a fairly heavy duty search and possibly more than most users would want to go about installing. But it's something to keep in mind if needed.

[–] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are hosted versions you can just use without installing at home.

https://searx.space/

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I'm going to bookmark that and give them a try.

[–] texasspacejoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I'm using SEARXNG.

Sounds like the Elon alternative for searching

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Nice thanks for this