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...
Would anyone out who is tech savvy be able to explain a couple things to me, who is not? Or point me in the right direction.
How can I search for a subject on Mastodon?
The search engines have now been taken over by AI on all browsers, it seems. The worst part is, I can’t use the kind of search lingo I used to because it’s so literal and can’t find what I’m looking for. Is there any way to bypass AI results? Is this permanent?
so @Mojeek seems to have at least deleted their death wishes off of their site, but with no explanation, and no explanation on how they will make sure that this doesn't happen to other people who may be in a worse place than I am currently and can take serious damage from things like exactly this.
To just let an AI post stuff on your page is so irresponsible. To not make sure things like this doesn't happen is irresponsible.
If you let an AI post something in your name, YOU are responsible for what it confabulates.
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.
🧵 …to find the corresponding RSS and Atom feeds of exciting and interesting blogs and co. on the Internet, you can search on @feedle. I have already informed you about this here in Fediverse. And it's easy to subscribe in the web software above.
It took me a while, but I have successfully manipulated China's search engine, Baidu, to acknowledge, "Taiwan independent day" and "Independent Taiwan" without Baidu showing maps of Taiwan incorrectly being included as part of China. 😎
No idea how long it will last, but from America, with love.
(It was not hard. Their search ranks easily and all I needed was a few bots to favor the content I wanted)
DuckDuckGo, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT's web search, Ecosia, and Qwant all stopped working this morning because of Bing API. 😂 And they want Microsoft Copilot deeply integrated with Windows OS. Imagine someone is unable to book emergency medical appointments because Microsoft Copilot is down or you can't withdraw money or transfer funds through netbanking because AI and screenshot services are down. This is a good example of why we must not trust someone like Microsoft for anything serious.
New bidder in the #SearchEngine alternative quest : #Stract. Clearly, the engine is young (2022), so expect a few gaps (it could do with a few more indexations), but it's promising. I particularly like the "optic" concept and the Explore tab 🤓