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What do you all search with? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google's results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they've taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming.

I've mitigated a lot of that by doing searches for any kind of product comparison or technical question with "site:reddit.com", but now with the possibility that that trick will become less useful over time as well...?

Yeah. What search engines are other tech folks using?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip! Just set up my docker container. How do you configure the hostname replacements? In the UI Preferences menu, there's just a toggle switch for "Hostname Replace", but nowhere to input a list of names.

[–] jason 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not sure if you can see this since beehaw defederated us, but just add/edit the following in your settings.yml file in the searxng folder. The following redirects only reddit & twitter:

enabled_plugins:
   - 'Hostname replace'

hostname_replace:
#   '(.*\.)?youtube\.com$': 'invidious.example.com'
#   '(.*\.)?youtu\.be$': 'invidious.example.com'
#   '(.*\.)?youtube-noocookie\.com$': 'yotter.example.com'
   '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'teddit.net'
   '(.*\.)?redd\.it$': 'teddit.net'
   '(www\.)?twitter\.com$': 'nitter.net'
#   # to remove matching host names from result list, set value to false
#   'spam\.example\.com': false
   '(.*\.)?pinterest\.com': false
   '(.*\.)?instagram\.com': false