if you looking for a good alternative for google search, try "SearXNG"
if you looking for a good alternative for google search, try "SearXNG"
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
I use ononoki for almost a half year without effort.
How do I add SearXNG to be the default on my Chrome or Chromium? I still need to use Chrome on a computer of mine.
Dig out old PC from somewhere, install some Linux distribution, Tailscale and Docker/Podman, and install SearX that way.
I checked it out, but most of the public instances I looked at use google + bing. I think I only came across one that used Mojeek, but they deranked it so google results were still at the top.
Yeah you can customize them -- if you never clear your cookies.
Pretty much need to self-host it to customize it.
if you never clear your cookies.
They allow you to use a link instead for saving settings, which can also be used to set as your default search engine
I'd use it more often if its public instances didn't get rate-limited so often
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
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.
we make money mainly from our api, our investors are patient private capital and we don't take vc, appreciate your point but these are fundamentally different situations, our ads (when they run) will also be contextual so more of a ddg situation than a "makes users into products to be sold to advertisers"
fair enough if it's not for you though
Mojeek is cool, but trying to search something in my first language results in 0 results find.
The homepage took 5 seconds to load. I'll pass.
not sure what's happening there for you, speed is one of the things which people frequently say we do well for
Let me tell you about waiting for AskJeeves to load up in the 90s.
Web crawler indeed
Not at all for me
Mojeek reminds me of early Google results which only searches title and inurl I like it
You can use Mojeek with SearXNvm with nothing enabled but Mojeek returned no results, I wonders why is that?
i get a lot of simpsons pictures in the image results for some rsn
same here but with hentai on searx.be
Some raisin
Some resin
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
IP addresses are not some super-secret PII. You don't have to try to hide it unless you don't want to reveal the country you're in. You can also proxy SearXNG through tor. Though Google wouldn't work then, and of course search time increases as well.
have been using it for a while on my mobile and so far i like it better than ddg or startpage
It's pretty nice. The REST API for running searches makes running SearxNG worth it, if nothing else.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by that?
How is it compared to DDG?
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)
a lot more search results, but they are ordered in a very weird way. it lists subdomains first, then the main domain