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What search engines do you use? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tired of duckduckgo using MSN's amp thing for news or blocking some websites, and it's now adding shit AI too. Don't want to spend any money running a searxng instance for the time being and most public instances are too overwhelmed.

Any suggestions? Doesn't need to be perfect, just not too annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I tried it out after getting a referral code from somebody I know granting a 3 month trial. I've been hooked. It's the first search engine that has rivaled Google search, it's so good. I'm often disappointed with DDG (switching to Google later to find what I need), and Mojeek never finds anything. SearXNG has been very close, but is essentially an aggregator, not exactly a Google replacement.

Kudos to Kagi for getting it right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Mojeek never finds anything.

Got any examples we can look into?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If i search something in a language other than EN/DE/FR... I couldn't find anything. This is very frustrating for an Asian user

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

which languages are you searching in? It's likely that they are as-of-yet unsupported. There are a lot of languages we crawl and index in which aren't en/de/fr but non-neo-latin languages are not currently available.

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

Japanese mostly, not a neo latin language.

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

for the moment it's just not in the crawl; I will add +1 into the "add Japanese" column off the back of this interaction

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks for doing this! Kudos:) & I believe that many users also look forward to search in Chinese and Korean

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a hard one to answer without losing anonymity. It's with contextual searching, like X business in Y town, or looking up specific or niche software tools. I occasionally give Mojeek a fair shot, then switch away when I can't find what I'm looking for. If you'd like, I'll keep track of those instances and email you with examples, is that helpful?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That would be helpful, yes; there is a "submit feedback" button on results pages which allows you to send it directly to us if that works.