It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing
Isn’t this the same as Google?
M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable
Submitted 2 months ago by renzev@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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sunbunman@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Thank you so much for this! I did not know Kati was doing that, and I was about to cave in and start trying it out!
eldoom@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The only thing bing is good for is watching porn and I will stand by that opinion.
serenissi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How?
eldoom@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Just do a video search for whatever your kink is and turn off safe search
qwet@lemm.ee 2 months ago
[deleted]JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Can you paste as text?
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Need to enshittify it enough to make the AI features feel like an improvement.
prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
SearXNG
bstix@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Google is even worse.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I’ve been using my own searxng instance for a few months now and my god I’m never going back.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
Which search engines do you use with it? Google? Bing? Something else?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
All of them.
It shows you which ones “agree” on a given entry, so you can tune it to your tastes.
jasep@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which one? Something paid or self hosted?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Self-hosted. That’s not a type, it’s what it’s called. Searxng.
Here’s a list of puplic instances to try or use.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Your search query is garbage incidentally. Unifying is a “feature” not the name of any particular software. You should have searched for the model of your hardware
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…Nnnnno, there is literally a tool from Logitech called “Logitech Unifying Software,” which is the applet you need to reassign a Logitech Unifying receiver to a different device.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s describing the FEATURE! There are no downloads listed for a feature for a reason… you don’t load the actual software for instance “logitechoptions” “logitech options+” “G hub”
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Maybe you should inform Logitech about that?
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also your own fucking link says explicitly that you can achieve the feature it describes with Logitech Options Plus! From your own goddamn link
. You can now personalize the experience of your Unifying devices with the powerful Logi Options+ App that lets you customize your supported Logitech devices so you can get more done.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where are your downloads for that! They don’t call it that any longer
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s describing the FEATURE! There are no downloads listed for a feature for a reason… you don’t load the actual software for instance “logitechoptions” “logitech options+” “G hub”
yrmp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not as garbage as your critical thinking abilities it would seem.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
note how searching for the words logitech unifying don’t go to any current release of any software you would actually want to install whereas searching for “logitech” “name of hardware” actually take you to the current software for your actual hardware? Shocking I know.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Is there a ConfidentlyIncorrect in here already?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Turns out there is!
!confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world
Do you want to do the honors?
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Unifying is absolutely the name of software
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a goddamn feature the software has never been called unifying.
Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
sirico@feddit.uk 2 months ago
If only they could make a functioning store. Laterally the only os now where you still have to go to a third party website for software.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Ugh. Do you really want that though? They do have a store don’t they? Just no one wants to use it.
Debian has had a browseable catalog since forever but it’s still waaay better to just go to a third party’s website and see how they say to install whatever thing.
renzev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, but that’s just because Debian’s software catalog is deliberately full of outdated and/or broken packages. It’s like that on purpose. On most other distros native packages trump third-party install scripts any day of the week.
Mwa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
i remember i got a opera broswer recommended on bing when i was searching for zen which is a firefox fork
heavy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Can someone ELI5 how searx works and if it’s worth the hassle of hosting? I’m privacy conscious but not paranoid.
renzev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can someone ELI5 how searx works
It sends your search query to a bunch of different existing search engines, and shows you all of the results in one combined page
if it’s worth the hassle of hosting
Personally idk, maybe someone else can provide their opinion about this
fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Searx (as others have said) is an aggregate of multiple search engines all bundled into one, with very finetuned customization (ie: you can toggle every search option you want or not within each category).
You also don’t need to host your own, though I’m not sure what the significance of being self hosted in this case is.
As far as usefulness over other search sites, it’s generally better with some caveats. Search engines as a whole are in a pretty awful state, so combining them is better, but still not that good. It does offer some very niche search engines that can be extremely useful when pooled together though, which is nice.
Searx also has some captcha issues that I haven’t quite figured out. My understanding is that essentially, search engines don’t like when you use their engine without being on their site, and it’ll stop working via searx (until you go to the site in question and do the captcha maybe?).
There’s also a few different domains for searx with varying degrees of availability as far as what engines they reliably connect to.
All in all, searx is great by comparison to mainstream trash, but it can be a headache to setup, and a headache to maintain. There’s a masterlist of searx hosts somewhere, I’ll try and see about finding it if someone else doesn’t link it.
chM5tZ8zMp@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
There’s a masterlist of searx hosts somewhere, I’ll try and see about finding it if someone else doesn’t link it.
It’s here: searx.space
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It scraps other search engines either locally or remotely from someone else’s server. I used it for a while, then switched back to duckduckgo. Duckduckgo is what I recommend if you are lazy.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I like kagi more than ddg. It’s not free but meh.
affiliate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
what’s even the point of a download link if you don’t have a guide that tells you how to click the link
stormesp@lemm.ee 2 months ago
is it based on your searches or something? both in the browser with fingerprint protection where it thinks im from Usa and from the one where it detects my correct location the first result is from logi.com. I really hate bing, specially since they started pushing ai, but dunno, doesnt seem like the normal user experience what you are getting.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No joke, I hesitated to even click on the link. That’s what this bullshit modern internet has conditioned me to do.
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Should’ve just asked your trusty copilot 🤖
SouthFresh@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Bing does not allow for exclusion of specific phrases by using hyphens and quotes. You can put them in your query, but they will be ignored.
Searching for: Topic -TopicSimilar
Is identical to: Topic
Veedem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s amazing how bad that is.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I don’t get malware and AI on firefox, but uBlock count’s continually up. I know this behavior only from trash dump sites.