triskelion, 23 days ago

@arstechnica @Mojeek and Stract looks good but search results are really bad. searXNG is nice if you can self-host but none of the public instance looks trustworty. I'm currently using @brave search, results are good but they enable usage analytics or something by default, you can turn it off in preference but I'm always using browser private mode in Librewolf so it's annoying to turn it off every time and also companies relation with crypto stuff is somewhat shady

Mojeek, 23 days ago

@triskelion @arstechnica @brave do you have examples of bad results for us?

triskelion, 23 days ago

@Mojeek @arstechnica @brave For example if you search "Serpent OS", you find result of an article as first result instead of the official website, official website is below and it contains referral link from ITS FOSS, wtf

Mojeek, 23 days ago

@triskelion @arstechnica @brave the issue here seems to be that https://www.serpentos.com/ throws up an error instead of redirecting back to https://serpentos.com/; this has caused the home page itself to disappear from results.

We'll sort this out manually, if the redirect www to non-www happened automatically then it would have worked itself out 😀

Mojeek, 20 days ago

@triskelion @arstechnica @brave should be all good now: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=Serpent+OS thanks for pointing it out to us!

Colbycolby, 24 days ago

@arstechnica I tried Mojeek and SearXNG and got useful results from both

TheDailyBurble, 24 days ago

@arstechnica I know we'll only get corporate fluff from themselves but anyone know what happened to the web giants this time?

tizian, 24 days ago

@arstechnica Reading this article, I decided to give @Mojeek a long standing go; and just realised one can't even change the standard search engine in Brave Browser on Android to custom ones. Seems I'm also switching to Firefox.

Still need to keep Brave, though. No other browser is able to block all YouTube advertisements. :BlobhajShock:

Mojeek, 23 days ago

@tizian @arstechnica the method is (weird but)

1. do a search using the engine you want to add
2. go to the search settings in the browser
3. it has now magically appeared below the preset list

annoying but not impossible

tizian, 23 days ago

@Mojeek @arstechnica You are right! Did not know that.

Mojeek, 23 days ago

@tizian @arstechnica why so hidden?!?!

epistomai, 24 days ago

@arstechnica me using qwant, duck duck go, and everything else than those two.

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Bot4Sale, 24 days ago

@arstechnica I've never used it but according to https://avoidthehack.com/best-private-search Brave search does not rely on Bing or Google for search results. It may have other issues however (ie. privacy issues)