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Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[–] anzo@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm running searxng on docker locally, and set that as my search engine on Firefox. It's been awesome! I will probably start a blog and post instructions... Adding the custom search engine into about:config was kinda difficult. Other web browsers should be easier.. (e.g. Vivaldi)

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can add search engines to Firefox in the address and search bar.

Go to the site you want to add, click the address bar for the drop down to show, then there will be an icon for that site with a green plus to add it.

If you use the search box it's even easier. If you're on the site the icon on the left will have the green plus symbol for it.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yup. That smart recognition didn't play for me on 127.0.0.1:8080

[–] Tin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

There's a Firefox addon called "Add custom search engine" which will allow you to add a local instance of searx.

You'll want to give it the full search query, with %s where the search string goes. for you, it'll be something like:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/search?q=%s

[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Google constantly shit the bed on a local instance like it does on public instances? I tried using searXNG and it kept happening regardless of the instance I used.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's precisely what made me install it locally. So far, I had no issues. I guess the rate-limiting comes from the fact of being public. And you can aggregate results from many providers, add filters, etc. I only had one issue with duck, but solved it after updating the container.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I need to add one to my inside server. I'll have to find a guide.

Are you able to access it remotely?