Searxng?
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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You can pick what search engines are sourced, which is fanatic, and it's fully anonymous. My preferred instance is disroot's (https://search.disroot.org) as they are a super trustworthy nonprofit in my book.
Kagi is pretty decent. It's worth supporting else the space will continue to be dominated by advertising monopolies.
I signed up for it last night for exactly that reason.
Kagi is good at filtering that low effort trash, but itβs behind a subscription
I use kagi and really like it. I find it worth the money as a business owner and software dev. I feel I'm more productive.
You can set up your own "lenses" which are targeted, customized searches and then use a keyword to invoke them. Pretty handy when you routinely search for obscure topics.
The ability to prioritise and pin results from different sites is what won me over. Pinning stackoverflow helps filter a lot of junk when resolving programing issues, and when working with geometry I've pinned or prioritised a few different resources that better explain the mathematics
Get kagi. Easily 10x better than ddg or google.
Installing adblock or unlock origin
I've had Qwant foisted on me by Firefox and it's decent enough, I find, no complaints.
Haha those results tho
I love this, reminds me of when I first found StumbleUpon and the OG Yahoo that was a hand-curated directory.
I'm curious to know people's thoughts on Startpage. I've been using it exclusively for a good couple months now and like it.
Owned by a for-profit company, and it puts ads on top of your search results now.
Oh really? Man, I thought I was doing good. I never see ads since I use uBlock Origin.
I use SearxNG and Ecosia
Ecosia isn't ad free... And if you using them ad free you're just hurting them in their mission.