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mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If it works for you… I agree with the general sentiment of “if its free you are the product”. However, I see kagi come up so often around here that I feel like it’s some astro turfing. I tried it and was not impressed. SearXNG is by far the best search engine I’ve used in a long time and the best part is I am hosting it locally on my PC, traffic is going out a VPN. You get the privacy and the best results possible since its a meta engine using many different engines.

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lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I tried it and was not impressed

It is better than ddg and Brave, that much I can say. Brave especially have been shit recently.

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- mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Never used brave, I think DDG is actually a pretty decent search engine overall. I use it as my backup to searxng and used it primarily for years now before switching to searxng.
  
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Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Didn’t Google nuke SearX? Or did they only nuke public instances?

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- mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Google results work fine for me on my home instance:
  
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- herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If so, I wonder if that timeline lines up with when I was trying SearX. For the first few days I was blown away by the results, and then suddenly they became absolute garbage. I ended up switching back to DDG.
  
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