Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."

• kandykarter@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do you duplicate this feature in SearXNG? help.kagi.com/…/website-info-personalized-results…

  It’s basically the major thing keeping me with Kagi.

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  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That seems like a crutch instead of a real feature. I have even just thinking about having to manage that. What if you want info from sites you do not already know about? Seems like finding new things through search is basically dead anymore.

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    • kandykarter@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Websites I’ve never heard of come up very frequently. The feature I find highly useful involves a) hiding shitty disinformation websites as I encounter them, or blocking sites like pintrest, and b) elevating results from websites I like, like having letterboxd results rank higher than IMDB when I search for movies or whatEVER.

      Being able to customize my own results to favour what I’m actually looking for is *such *a crutch.

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  • Zworf@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that exactly what the “weight” in searXNG does?

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    • kandykarter@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      weight

      Where can I find that setting? I don’t see anything like that anywhere in the UI. If it’s in the config files and not in the UI, that isn’t particularly useful to me.

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      • Zworf@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s in the UI on the Engines tab. However, you can only see it there, you still have to use the config file to actually change it, sorry.

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• greysemanticist@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have the big SearXNG portal bookmarked ( searx.space ) but I don’t find that I ever reach for it that often. Not being able to cull lower quality sites is just a little bit of extra toil I’m happy to pay to go away.

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  • fwygon@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You do have to host it yourself or run your own personal instance to get the power of SearXNG; if you’ve not tried this, please do not write it off.

    If hosting it yourself or even running it locally in a container on your machine at home is too technical for you; nobody is going to bane you for that. In fact there’s several guides and videos out there that might help you if you’re inclined to learn.

    If not; you’re also free to continue consuming as you do.

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