actually awesome and fast search engine (depending on which instance you use) with no trashy AI and ADs results also great for privacy, if you don’t know which instance to use go to https://searx.space/ and choose an instance closest to you

  • sga@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    If you are on a desktop, you can run it locally, you are much less likely to be rate limited, but this comes at cost of your ip being still visible to google or whatever search engine you choose to scrape from

  • ben_dover@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 hours ago

    have been using it for a while on my mobile and so far i like it better than ddg or startpage

  • Kaiyo@lemmy.world
    25·
    8 hours ago

    I mean it’s often better than nothing, but it is a meta search that still often uses Google or Bing to gather results. IMHO, cut off the need for that data on the whole and use an option like Mojeek

    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
      25·
      7 hours ago

      For all their talk of doing things different with their own index and rankings. Mojeek is following exactly what Google did. It’s still an ad based business model that makes users into products to be sold to advertisers. They’re good now, while still trying to build market share. But once their investors get hungry, the enshitification will commence.

    • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      7 hours ago

      Mojeek is cool, but trying to search something in my first language results in 0 results find.

    • ColdWaterOP
      2·
      8 hours ago

      You can use Mojeek with SearX Nvm with nothing enabled but Mojeek returned no results, I wonders why is that?

      • ColdWaterOP
        11·
        7 hours ago

        I could be wrong but didn’t Mojeek also index results from Google and Bing? I’m wrong they index their own results, I mean Qwant is a search engine built in EU and they index their own results

    • ColdWaterOP
      8·
      7 hours ago

      I never use DDG before, but I think it’s pretty similar since DDG and SearX index their results from Bing (SearX and also index from Google, qwant… if you enable them), but SearX is decentralized and open source but DDG at core is not, you also have to trust DDG with your info (who know? maybe they lie about their privacy policy but I hope not)

    • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      a lot more search results, but they are ordered in a very weird way. it lists subdomains first, then the main domain

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    7 hours ago

    It’s pretty nice. The REST API for running searches makes running SearxNG worth it, if nothing else.