🔎 This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
— 404media.co
“Most of our searches go through the same handful of entities (Google, Bing, Yandex),” Denker told me. “Even other search engines such as DuckDuckGo use Bing for their results. I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build.”
#Ukraine’s popular army chief Valery #Zaluzhny was called to a meeting at the president’s office on Monday and told he was being fired, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN, following weeks of growing speculation over tensions between Volodymyr #Zelensky and his top commander.
A formal announcement has not been made, however, a presidential decree is expected by the end of the week.
#YandexNV reached an agreement to sell its Russian business, including the nation’s most popular #SearchEngine, for about $5.2 billion, the highest-valued deal yet to exit #Russia following the invasion of #Ukraine.
The divorce, which took more than a year to negotiate, opens the way for #Yandex to develop some projects abroad after divesting Russian units that had generated most of its revenue.
Ok, made the switch to #Firefox and wondering what extensions people recommend. I’ve installed Badger, Facebook Container, Search By Image, and Dark Background and Light Text.
"After quizzing these companies about data practices, I learned that most are sharing what’s happening in my home with Amazon, too. Our data is the price of entry for devices that want to integrate with Alexa. Amazon’s not only eavesdropping — it’s tracking everything happening in your home."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time'
> Using DDG instead of Goggle is a step in either the right direction.
DDG is one option.
> What web search engines do you recommend?
We stopped doing recommendations. We literally roll a dice to pick a #searchEngine these days. They can be played off each other, too. It was super-interesting that #DDG found NOTHING about one FOSS publishers details recently whereas another #searchEngine found plenty.
Oh look it works again, thought when it wanted to access #X anonymously it didn't work anymore. Apparently it now works again like on #Twitter and you can distribute its anonym here in the #Fediverse over a #Nitter instance. It's more convenient to avoid the data collection frenzy of this #web recording for your #privacy.
Search for "debian hamster" on DuckDuckGo and got some questionable results... which apparently, are from Bing. No, no, Bing, I was searching for "Debian Hamster" (which is a work related time tracking tool for tracking time spent on projects). Not this other search. But, SURE, let's throw LLMs at your crappy search data instead, that will fix the problem, I am sure. #Linux#SearchEngine#crappy
PerplexityAI is a LLM/DL-powered search engine. I tried it and it is impressive!
Perplexity shows citations for its response, which I consider a must-have feature to use any AI search engine. Google should be afraid, I'm switching to give Perplexity a shot full-time since the experience has been good.
@zeh@alcinnz
>have been seeing the worse results from duckduckgo
We're not the only ones who have been complaining about this recently. I was very happy with DDG for years and I still really like the fact that I can search the Free Software Directory by adding !fsd to my keywords. But their general search results have gone massively downhill in the last year or two, and I blame Bing.
#Gigablast ← does their own crawling, but what happened?.. they were dissolved last year & seem to now be www.alltheinternet.com
#Ombrelo ← a proxy but more advanced than the others (filters/downranks Cloudflare sites)
#YaCy is notable because it’s a crawler that you can install and operate yourself. YaCy instances can be public-facing and they can also share indexes with each other fedi style apparently. Some Searx instances tap YaCy instances.
I would love to find a searx or 4get instance that rejects the tech giants, but aggregates from YaCy, mojeek, gigablast, metager, maginalia.nu, frogfind.com, & wiby.me.
And I would love it even more if it would make replacements: