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What search engine do you use? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by firelizzard@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?

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[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I run my own searxng instance. It's amazing.

I also spun up my own yacy instance. It was pretty terrible. It could be good, but you would need a pretty beefy machine with a lot of storage and a lot of time for it to index for it to be anything approaching good.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Somehow I've never heard of searxng before. Would you say it's better than DDG? Are the memory requirements not too high?

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago

Searxng is a search engine aggregator. It sends your search out to all the engines and aggregates the results. No ads, no bullshit, endlessly customizable.

You can use one of the public instances. You don't have to run your own.

https://searx.space/