clive, to random
@clive@saturation.social avatar

If you haven't seen it yet, go check out @ernie's new search engine ...

... which automatically appends "&udm=14" to the end of your search query ...

... thereby triggering Google to give you your results with no AI answer at the top, and (for me, anyway) no ads

It's like google from 2004 or something

https://udm14.com

callimachus,
@callimachus@fosstodon.org avatar

@clive @ernie please also consider which has been 'not google' since 2008 :)

gnulinux, to DuckDuckGo German
@gnulinux@social.anoxinon.de avatar

Zum Wochenende: Ausgesucht

Der gestrige Ausfall vieler Suchmaschinen zeigt eine systemische Schwäche und sollte zum Nachdenken anregen.

https://gnulinux.ch/zum-wochenende-ausgesucht

LukaszD, to DuckDuckGo Polish
@LukaszD@pol.social avatar

Potestowałem tego chata AI z DuckDuckGo i jest bezużyteczny. Okroili go z wielu rzeczy, prywatności, nieszkodzenia nikomu, nawet kodu Morse'a nie odszyfruje.

aral, to DuckDuckGo
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar
kubikpixel, to Ecosia German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Die Suchmaschine Bing, jetzt mit KI, ist momentan scheinbar überbelastet und deswegen down:
👉 https://allestörungen.ch/stoerung/bing/

Doch die Auswirkung ist mehr als nur bei ihnen, auch bei "alternativen" Suchmaschinen, die Bing im Hintergrund nutzen:

  • Ecosia
  • Duck Duck Go
  • Start Page
  • Dog Pile
  • Swiss Cows
  • ...

🔎 Was als zufärlässige Alternative genutzt werden kann, seht ihr in meiner Timeline.

kubikpixel, (edited )
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

🧵 …weshalb das gestern obige Toots zur Bing Suchmaschine, Gedanken zu oben erwähnten Alternativen zu nutzen, geben sollte.

»Der gestrige Ausfall vieler Suchmaschinen zeigt eine systemische Schwäche und sollte zum Nachdenken anregen.«
– von @gnulinux

🐧 https://gnulinux.ch/zum-wochenende-ausgesucht


AdamBishop, to random
@AdamBishop@floss.social avatar

Discovering all sorts of alternative engines today ... and have piqued my curiosity in particular.

elperronegro,
@elperronegro@shmg.online avatar

@AdamBishop I alternate at present between #Searx #DuckDuckGo and #Kagi (paid). Not tried #Mojeek

timesandseasons, to DuckDuckGo
@timesandseasons@mastodo.neoliber.al avatar

While is down, I tried out a few other search engines. I did a search I made yesterday in each. gave me an interesting looking blog first, then some less-related info from high-trust sources, then an interesting paper, then a bunch of garbage. gave me nothing that looked interesting, just pages that used some of the words from my search. gave me the less-related high-trust sources first, then the entire rest of the first page looked interesting.

aral, to DuckDuckGo
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Duck Duck Go is down because Bing is down.

(Also, you saw the recent AI stuff, right?)

Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).

rakoo, to DuckDuckGo

Puisque DDG semble (semblait ?) avoir des problèmes et qu'il est temps de penser à des alternatives, en voilà une autre: @metapress

C'est une extension à installer dans son ordinateur qui va aller directement interroger les moteurs de recherche internes à chaque site.

  • C'est garanti sans intermédiaire qui fait des choses avec nos données (mais du coup pose problème pour trier)
  • c'est du vrai web parce que mon user-agent va interroger les sources et pas un proxy
  • c'est impossible de consommer moins d'énergie que ça parce que juste pas de datacenter ni de machines à fabriquer et faire tourner 24/7
  • c'est garanti libre de bout en bout: https://framagit.org/Siltaar/meta-press-ext

Merci à @Siltaer pour le taff

ex, to DuckDuckGo German
@ex@chaos.social avatar

Was war eigentlich gestern bei , & co los?
Ich finde nichts in der Presse dazu, nicht mal bei den Fachzeitungen.

kaffeeringe, to microsoft German
@kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de avatar

23.5.2024 - Der Tag an dem offensichtlich wurde, dass Bing praktisch die einzige verbliebene Alternative zu Google ist. Alle anderen "Suchmaschinen" sind Bing mit Schlapphut und Trenchcoat. 🕵️

https://www.heise.de/news/Bing-DuckDuckGo-und-weitere-Suchmaschine-nicht-erreichbar-9729489.html

chikorita157, to Meme
@chikorita157@sakurajima.moe avatar

People realizing that DuckDuckGo search results is just mostly... Bing.

#meme #bing #duckduckgo

madeindex, to opensource
@madeindex@mastodon.social avatar

Why doesn't use an such as by default?

Does a pretty good job & has 80+ instances available at:

https://searx.space/ 😀

That should ensure a better uptime & reliability than & of course - way better everything - than 👍

More about it at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx

@torproject

unicornCoder, to DuckDuckGo
@unicornCoder@fosstodon.org avatar

since #DuckDuckGo is trending due to a outage i learned that this searx search engine exists

https://searx.github.io/searx/

arn_fai, to DuckDuckGo French
@arn_fai@toot.aquilenet.fr avatar

Pour les personnes qui sont perdues parce que / / / ne fonctionnent plus aujourd'hui, sachez qu'Alsace Réseau Neutre propose un meta-moteur de recherche qui se base aussi sur l'index Google. Il est donc toujours fonctionnel.

Cerise sur le gâteau, il vous remplace les liens youtube par des liens invidious :)

https://sans-nuage.fr

elacheche, to microsoft
@elacheche@mastodon.tn avatar
kev, to DuckDuckGo
@kev@fosstodon.org avatar

So it seems that #DuckDuckGo was down for the last few hours because of a #Bing outage. That's very annoying; DDG should probably get out from under Microsoft's coat tails...

<https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing-is-down-bringing-duckduckgo-and-ecosia-down-too/>

platypus, to DuckDuckGo
@platypus@glammr.us avatar

Ok -- I am really curious about this one!

I searched for: david sedaris blood work

because I wanted to see if the piece was online anywhere. The result I got on both my phone's Firefox Focus and my work laptop's Firefox says "not many results contain test, search for david sedaris blood 'test'?"

but the word "test" is not anywhere in my query.

Searching for: lab blood work

does not get me this. Nor do other things I've tried.

anderseknert, to DuckDuckGo
@anderseknert@hachyderm.io avatar

has been down all morning. First time I've seen that, from what I remember. Hugs to whoever is working on getting search back right now.

garrett, to DuckDuckGo
@garrett@mastodon.xyz avatar

Since and aren't working as is down, instead of going to , perhaps check out https://searchengine.party/ instead and find an alternate engine.

To set a search engine as your default, visit the site and right click the URL bar, and select add. Then change your default in settings.

(Firefox will add it as an option in the default engines in settings. Chrome will open settings with it as an "inactive shortcut" which you can "make default" in the entry's menu.)

ScaredyCat, to DuckDuckGo

Self host searchXNG - when there's an outage you still get search results - albeit from a limited subset of engines. #duckduckgo #selfhost

*edit because you have to get the name right?!!

jackyan, to DuckDuckGo
@jackyan@mastodon.social avatar

Bingo! Or -go! , , , and down? I hope a ton of people are switching to @Mojeek today. https://mojeek.com

noellemitchell, to DuckDuckGo
@noellemitchell@mstdn.social avatar

is working again! :party: :blobhappy:

adelgado, to DuckDuckGo
@adelgado@eu.mastodon.green avatar

Because of the current issue with Bing that affects DuckDuckGo and Qwant, I did a "research" (5 min look into https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/?license=opensource ) and found Searx and Searxng. I'm giving a try to Searxng, so far so good finding issues with Ubuntu 24.04 and Wayland. But I keep thinking that there should be a federated way to search the Internet

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