FYI: The whoogle options don’t work well. Everything else seems fine though.
This is great, thanks for sharing.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world
on 19 Jan 18:00
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If anyone knows and other good search engines for the fediverse let me(us?) know. Im trying to find something that isnt just a small wrapper around google/bing/etc…
Kagi’s pretty good and has a Fediverse search feature, but it’s paid. I don’t mind paying, but there’s also no way to do private searches that way, so I’m not going to use it as my main search engine. It’s been good at hunting down memes on Lemmy that I want to find again though.
You might already know this, but you can use a Kagi without logging in on private tabs using a “session link” that looks like kagi.com/search?token=[LONG TOKEN HERE]. (Of course, this session link is not perfectly anonymous because the token is presumably tied to your account.)
I’m trying out yacy and it’s hitting the same spot. My only issue is self hosting seems to not work well for yunohost so I may need to find a way to run it alternatively somehow.
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Works quite well, thanks for sharing
FYI: The whoogle options don’t work well. Everything else seems fine though.
This is great, thanks for sharing.
If anyone knows and other good search engines for the fediverse let me(us?) know. Im trying to find something that isnt just a small wrapper around google/bing/etc…
Kagi’s pretty good and has a Fediverse search feature, but it’s paid. I don’t mind paying, but there’s also no way to do private searches that way, so I’m not going to use it as my main search engine. It’s been good at hunting down memes on Lemmy that I want to find again though.
You might already know this, but you can use a Kagi without logging in on private tabs using a “session link” that looks like kagi.com/search?token=[LONG TOKEN HERE]. (Of course, this session link is not perfectly anonymous because the token is presumably tied to your account.)
the token is completely tied to your account.
you can access part of your account info/settings with that as well, a while back they added an extra password prompt to some of that.
truly anonymous searches are simply impossible unfortunately. while they claim they’re not logging any searches it’s impossible to verify.
I’m trying out yacy and it’s hitting the same spot. My only issue is self hosting seems to not work well for yunohost so I may need to find a way to run it alternatively somehow.
Looks like the Whoogle option doesn’t work any more
github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/1211#is…
How long do you give it?
Sorry not going to turn off my ad blocker for this.
I can't get the "more accurate" Google search to return anything but Lemmy results 🤣
Never trying this again.
Doesn’t seem to work. Clicking search just opened a full screen as on mobile with no close options.
It did that for me until I changed the search option to anything except Whoogle
So this is just a shortcut to Google or DuckDuckGo with a prebuilt query?
Yes
Tried to search Rust, but it gave me this<img alt="1000046547" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7ed34314-abf5-4942-bfec-58a43d028c22.jpeg">