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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

There are no search engines besides Google and Bing, because everyone else just uses Bing under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And here I thought Startpage was acting up...

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

I wanted to make a joke about my first search engine, MetaCrawler, and then found out it's still around and still does search. Going down that rabbithole, it's changed hands a ton and was only relaunched kinda recently at some point. Is it any good? Nah, probably not.

I guess I'll just have to rely on my other aggregate search engine, SavvySearch (no, no the first search engine does not in fact still exist, much to my disappointment).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank god I can find everything I need in wikipedia and reddit

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So what about open source self hosted search engines? If it requires some hardware I'd gladly team up with a small group of people to finance a bigass server that just gets us our personal search engine

Any good ones out there?

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