One possible caveat of using an open source search engine alternative instead of Google

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What am I looking at here?

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  • snek@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The top result is the resume of the Unabomber for President political action committee UNAPACK

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why do you think that ended up as the top result?

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    • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah ok.

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• damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there a search engine that stores generic search vector information in a p2p fashion and allows users to search so that their local and then other people’s remotes get searched in that order?

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  • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yacy is the only one I have heard of and I hear that it is terrible. I set it up myself maybe 20 years ago when I was still on dial up and it wasn’t great, but I thought it was because of my shitty network and computer by who knows. I’m very interested in one, I have been using duck duck to but that is just a layer on top of Google afaik

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    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Duck duck is a layer on top of Bing. Thanks for the link to Yacy.

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• Nuage@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe you should add brave search in the search engines that searxng use. I’m using it since almost one year and except for images I never had weird results

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  • Nuage@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh and I don’t know if qwant is really good for English searches since it’s a French search engine(however it is almost perfect for french searches)

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  • snek@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I removed it on purpose. Trying my best to rely on any search engine other than Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Bing.

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    • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why not duckduckgo? I’d been using them since I had heard they were good and can be trusted for the most part.

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• jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i use Kagi. its paid but it is so refreshing not getting ads and being able to tune the search results.

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  • snek@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks interesting, I’m considering it

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• shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  which search alternative is this?

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  • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    looks like Searxng

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    • snek@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep that is the one, but I customized which engines I get results from and decided that almost all major ones have sucked so I took them all out (the four horsemen, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Brace)

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    • shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      oh yep that’s the one, thanks!

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  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like sear xng

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