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?

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Not perfect:
    But here are some ideas.

    • reddit (tor)
    • wikipedia (tor)
    • certain niche direct sources (tor)

    More ideal ideas:

    • certain specific private source (maybe tor). Not reliable but high quality.
    • large collection of raw links ( requires labor, skill. And yields imperfect results )
    • searx ( mainly to share with friends and as a fallback. it is a pretty great premade metasearch engine when selfhosted)
    • ready-to-go foss searchengine implementations. (Limited in scope, requires decent amount of “labor” and time. Requires setup phase and light maintaining. Extremely high quality results. Optionally invest money in various ways to supercharge. Perhaps recruit collaborators)

    other stuff:

    • creating private collections and bookmarks
    • not using internet or using rarely or using in cautious way. Or not using www.
    • focusing on distracting self with hands-on projects.

    What am i actually using at this point? (Nothing is set up currently!).

    • Sometimes i use tor 70% of the time. Sometimes i use tor 30% of the time.
    • very frequently non www .
    • duckduckgo when needed. [Often] without visiting the links
    • niche sources (2, …)
    • reddit

    *this isnt perfect! but i think overall i think i dont spend much time traveling to websites for info.

    Historically:

    • searx
    • searchengine
    • dabble in scaling.

    Future:

    • selfhost
    • scaling
    • further isolation
    • IRL
    • other stuff. such as creating new solutions.

    There is certainly room for immediate improvement here.
    Im just lazy.

    I dont need the internet as much as the internet needs me.