the current state of search engines (music video)
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What’s your opinion? Does google really “not work” anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it’s own way i feel…

  • Kata1yst@kbin.social
    15·
    11 months ago

    You can also selfhost SearxNG with modest hardware and side step the rate limits. I love it. Happy to answer any questions

    • sylverstream@lemmy.nz
      7·
      11 months ago

      How does it compare to Kagi?

      I can’t self host it, what’s the problem with using an existing instance?

      • Kata1yst@kbin.social
        8·
        11 months ago

        I haven’t used Kagi much, but my understanding is that Kagi has their own indexing and you can customize your search by ranking your results.

        SearxNG runs searches against many other search engines and then uses an algorithm to rank the results sanely. So less customizable but also the net you’re casting is much wider.

        You could easily self host on a free-tier instance in Oracle cloud or AWS for a year, or even just run it on a laptop. But if you really can’t see a way to do that you can of course use one of the listed instances, you’ll just be more likely to bump up against rate limits since you’re sharing limits with many other people.