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Search results for tag #searchengine

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[?]boof-chamber » 🌐
@aptronym@autistics.life

i miss stract search engine. that thing was so weird that it felt like dumb luck or serendipity in that it seemed to wildly disregard the search terms but somehow it also finds the one thing you’ve been searching for but could not find find for years - and you weren’t even looking for it this time, but somehow, there it is. magic.

i was so sad when it was ditched.

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    [?]Wendy [He/Him] » 🌐
    @serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space

    Search result of the same keywords "ubuntu boot to grub" on Startpage vs Bing.

    See how useless Bing search is.

    Startpage search engine, with keywords "ubuntu boot to grub"

    Alt...Startpage search engine, with keywords "ubuntu boot to grub"

    Bing search engine, with keywords "ubuntu boot to grub"

    Alt...Bing search engine, with keywords "ubuntu boot to grub"

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      [?]Wendy [He/Him] » 🌐
      @serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space

      Search result of the same keywords "ubuntu boot to grub" on Startpage vs Bing.

      See how useless Bing search is.

      Startpage search engine, with keywords "ubuntu boot to grub"

      Alt...Startpage search engine, with keywords "ubuntu boot to grub"

      Bing search engine, with keywords "ubuntu boot to grub"

      Alt...Bing search engine, with keywords "ubuntu boot to grub"

        [?]Kevin Dominik Korte » 🌐
        @kdkorte@fosstodon.org

        I'm building a guitar and searching for a circuit. Naturally, that dumb AI at the top of the page confidently tells me a "solution" that short-circuits the guitar. I guess I need to switch away from DuckDuckGo as my search engine.

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          [?]Zelda » 🌐
          @Zelda@m.ai6yr.org

          @davidrevoy

          I stopped using Google years ago, and I did not replace it with Bing either. Nor did I trust DuckDuckGo since it is in America.

          Qwant — France, Europe
          qwant.com

          Ecosia — Germany, Europe
          ecosia.org

          Mojeek — England, Europe
          mojeek.com

          Swisscows — Switzerland, Europe
          swisscows.com

          Naver — South Korea, Asia
          naver.com

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            [?]Xamanismo Coletivo » 🌐
            @eliasulrich@hachyderm.io

            "One guy in built a to fight Google, and it works.

            It's called .

            It runs its own and builds its own instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

            What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

            The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

            There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

            It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every now shows you the same twelve ."

            marginalia-search.com/

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              [?]ololduck » 🌐
              @ololduck@vit.am

              I'm currently working on a new project: a personalized local that first looks at your (with auto-tagging feature via a small embedded ML model, that does not work 100% well with real cases (works pretty well with my test content, tough :p)) and then tries to fetch results from other search engines, à la seeks/searx/searxng.

              This is based on an idea/software by @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org: https://search.technomancy.us/. Follow the links at the bottom of the page for nice articles detailing his motivations and reasoning,

              There's still lots of work but i'm pretty proud of my UI (i'm still quite a noob with CSS, so when i do something a bit coherent i'm happy) and tag searching works honestly great for now. I'll need to see in the future what happens when the bookmark collection grows.

              I'm happy!

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