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Googling Is for Old People. That’s a Problem for Google. (www.wsj.com)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I would like two search engines displaying results side by side whenever I do a search. There's so much empty space on a wide screen display anyway.

Maybe I should check if there's an addon for this...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but a searx instance can return commingled results from multiple engines

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks - I'll have to look into this!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess you're too young to remember the good old days of dogpile searching on four engines within one page.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember ask Jeeves?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'd have Ask Jeeves, Hotbot, and Yahoo opened when I was trawling the Internet for porn while my parents were out for 30m when I was 14 years old. There were always substantially different results, though somehow they always ended up the same: with me infecting my parents' computer with some shit. Let's say I did a lot of learning from my mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember the porn networks that tried to get you to download their software to connect, and then it ended up being a dialer to a 900 number?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That is funny, and sounds like it'd be pretty expensive. I actually didn't encounter this fortunately, because I was already costing my parents a fortune because I just couldn't stay under 300 texts a month.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hah! It would seem so!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is an excellent idea. Did you happen to find any?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not really no!

There was a "Multi Web Search" by Oleksandr for Firefox but it was last updated five years ago. It also intermingles the results whereas I would've liked to see them side by side (to compare how different search engines rank the sites)

The SearX feature the other guy mentioned might be the best bet!