If you're looking to kick Google or DDG or whatever I'd recommend giving SearXNG a look. It's a meta search engine. https://docs.searxng.org/ You can self host it, it's pretty easy, or you can just use any one of a wealth of public instances. https://searx.space/
I'm fairly certain Kagi is borrowing from SearxNG and making some slight modifications. The only thing Kagi holds over SearxNG that I see is the maps feature.
So with my new found knowledge of #kagi upsetting me and causing me to leave it... The fact the only other engines that are not just proxying google or bing... Is #brave or #mojeek and while brave one is nice... I just cannot bring myself to use something that funds a biggot... Then mojeek just feels dated and not great...
I am tempted at bringing fuzzysearx back... and even look at trying to leverage the built in ability to add custom engines to look at leveraging other abilities... because searxng really seems like the only ethical way I can see to leverage search engines collecting data...
One more thing on the todo list: writing a blog post about #searxng. I've been using it on a personal instance for the last weeks and I'm pretty happy about the experience. It's my main search engine now, and I very rarely need to open another one.
Da ich schon lange #SearXNG als alternative #Suchmaschine nutze, habe ich von den technischen Problemen bei #Bing tatsächlich erst durch verschiedenen Beiträgen hier in der #Fediverse erfahren. Ich nutze zwar mit SearXNG auch Bing, frage allerdings noch ein paar andere Suchmaschinen ab. Aus diesem Grund ist mir das Problem gestern komplett egal gewesen.
Und von dem wesentlich bessern #Datenschutz solcher alternativen #Metasuchmaschinen will ich erst gar nicht anfangen. Zum Wochenende: Ausgesucht
☝️ Yes, the #Internet was not broken yesterday, only #Bing from #Microsoft and therefore these so-called alternatives, which apparently resist #Google. You should expand your naive belief and behaviour via #SearXNG, @Mojeek and/or #Stract search. You can find it by #search'ing for the corresponding hashtags in #Fediverse.
A seguito degli odierni problemi con i motori di ricerca, faccio presente che, CHIUNQUE può installare gratuitamente, un'alternativa decentraizzata come #SearXNG
sul proprio HOMESERVER.🙏
Pour celles et ceux qui utilisent #Bing (???), #Duckduckgo, #Qwant (oui, y'a que toi), #Ecosia etc etc.
Bing étant kapout, ces moteurs de recherche le sont aussi
Mais heureusement, @zaclys gère une instance #searxng qui, elle, reste fonctionnelle !
I'm really disappointed with DuckDuckGo lately. It has been enshittified by adding the new AI feature and search quality has been deteriorated, so I don't trust them anymore. I'm thinking of switching to searXNG, but I'm not interested in self-hosting. So looking for trustworthy public instance which has strict no-log policy, any suggestions?
Well #DuckDuckGo drank the cool aid. Can we just not plug hallucinating AI into every single thing? I've been meaning to get #SearXNG going on my infra. I guess it's time now.
Ich hoste mit #Yunohost meine eigenen Dienste. Darunter z.b. #invidious#searxng und #xmpp. Nun wollte ich gerne mal nachfragen, wie sicher das ganze ist, wenn ich z.b. Die Suchmaschine und auch XMPP öffentlich ins Netz stellen würde; was muss beachtet werden? Oder sollte ich davon ganz absehen?
My #LLM Assistant HAL can now query several search engines at once through #SearXNG, compile the meta, scrape the page bodies and URLs into a document and compile the top relevant results.I skip the cookies, skip the ads, get current real time web information.
running a #SearXNG docker takes so much ram!
like around 600MB! and out of my 2gb ram #RaspberryPi that's a ton.
I also run a Nextcloud docker and that's around 260MB.
(both when idle).
might have to find an alternative.
Tho at this point, coming from my home WiFi, it doesn't give all that much more privacy since I keep the same IP address.