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Can someone please recommend me a #search #engine that is not
* #Google (Ew google)
* #Duckduckgo (Keeps saying there were no results for my searches despite having the little information box to the right for the exact search)
* #Bing (I'd use bing if it wasn't crammed to death with CoPiLoT)
* #Brave (Ew, brave)
* #Ecosia (Its alright, but its just... slow. And gives kinda crap results)
* #Startpage (I just don't like it)
* #SearxNG (Slow, ugly, and useless)

I will probably update this list as I remember/am reminded about search engines that I've already tried and don't like.

cheers

#google #duckduckgo #Brave #search #bing #engine #searxng #startpage #ecosia
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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Here are all the engines with their own indexes and crawlers I know of: A look at search engines with their own indexes
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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I recommend mixing one or two “big” engines for long-tail or quick-answer queries with one or two “small” engines for discovery and surfing of short-tail queries. The long list of Bing-based engines and Mojeek can get you started in the former category; the non-commercial Web section and Stract can help with the latter.
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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or you can be like me and rotate between a dozen engines per day :floofTeehee:
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nex
nex
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Mojeek rings a bell, I don't think I've ever ventured into using them though. I'll certainly have a play about with these, thanks for the research!
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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Fair warning: you can’t use Mojeek the exact same way you use Google, Bing, DDG, etc. Although it’s rolled out some features for semantic search, it shines brightest for simple keyword matches. A more-advanced Control-F for the Web with a ranking algorithm and some word substitutions, like Google once was.

The same is true for most other alternatives in the list.

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nex
nex
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I'm quite happy with whatever doesn't give me SEO slop, but still has relevant results, and looks good while doing it :^)
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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the problem is that the web is so full of SEO slop that a sufficiently advanced filter will exclude much of the web. that, and building a sufficiently large index is doable but an incredibly difficult multi-year endeavor.
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