☝️ Yes, the #Internet was not broken yesterday, only #Bing from #Microsoft and therefore these so-called alternatives, which apparently resist #Google. You should expand your naive belief and behaviour via #SearXNG, @Mojeek and/or #Stract search. You can find it by #search'ing for the corresponding hashtags in #Fediverse.
Checking out “#Stract”, an open source search engine that is kinda new on the scene. What's interesting is I started writing this yesterday before the whole Bing API mess.
🧵 …die alternative Suchmaschinen, zu den oben erwähnten jetzige Panne bei Bing und deren abhängigen Internet Suchmaschinen, hatte ich schon länger mal getootet. Die zwei, die für mich (momentan) Alternativen sind, habe ich hier mal hingewiesen und verlinkt 🔎
🧵 …mal sehen wie den eben erwähnten Bing Problem eine positieve Auswirkung auf Europa hat. Ich hoffe die @openwebsearcheu von der @osf wird nicht neu erfunden und wird eine dezentrale Weiterentwicklung von den zwei oben erwähnten independent Open-Source Web-Suchmaschinen wie SearXNG und Stract.
New bidder in the #SearchEngine alternative quest : #Stract. Clearly, the engine is young (2022), so expect a few gaps (it could do with a few more indexations), but it's promising. I particularly like the "optic" concept and the Explore tab 🤓
it occured to me that if the web is full of junk (like ai-generated seo content etc), are there search engines where you can create and share with others your own (potentially big) sets of domains to include in the search? (edit for clarification: people would cobble together their own curated subset(s) of the web and just ignore the junk)
@mntmn Perhaps this project can fulfill this need: #Stract is an #opensource search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves...
Folks, please go and use this gentleman's home grown search engine. He literally runs it out of his basement. Mikkel is on Matrix as well, and you can message him.
Wikipedia Data Makes Better News Search: Stract Gossip Machine
Lately I've been spending a lot of time building my own tools as the state of search gets more disappointing. My newest effort is called Stract Gossip Machine. SGM uses historical audience interest as represented by Wikipedia page views to identify days with a higher likelihood of having relevant news about a topic, then creates…
I have been working on this since yesterday afternoon. I'm not entirely satisfied with it but you're welcome to play with it.
Temporal Topic Explorer uses Stract's search API and URL patterns to browse news topics by month. One day at a time.
It's an interesting way to explore topics that cover many months (try coronavirus in April 2020) or shock events that caused a big shift (try King Charles in September 2022).
Hey y'all! I've added a new tool to Stract Search, my implementation of the #Stract search engine. StractSearch is free and free-of-advertising at https://searchtweaks.com/stract/ .
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On the plus side for #stract, when I searched for info on Ikea air filters, it gave me this, https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/, which is exactly the Internet I miss from 20 years ago.
🔎 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.”
#Stract is a new, #opensource, #nonprofit#search engine. It has a lot of interesting functions. For example, users can exclude known copycat sites from search queries, focus on indie blogs, or do fediverse search only.
They support DDG-like !bangs and have a feature called Optics to customize search results, e.g. "Limit your searches to blogs, indieweb, educational content etc."
Ne du, so was wie #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage & #Ecosia liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie #Bing (M$) und/oder #Google. Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.
🧵 …danke @narek für das Entwickeln vom Gugle #App für Android, das ua #SearX / #SearXNG* Suchmaschinen unterstützt und über @fdroidorg auf dem #Android installierbar ist. Das #Gugle App soll später auch noch die #Stract* Suchmaschine unterstützen.
🧵 …von den oben in der Toot-Reihe erwähnten Suchmaschinen, nutze ich momentan #SearXNG und #Stract neben @Mojeek noch #Openverse für freie #Copyleft & Co. #Bild'er, #Grafik'en und #Foto's ua bei der Webseit-Gestaltung und der gleichen.