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What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Use a decentralized SearXNG instance and have it query every search engine that exists on the internet, or host your own of you're really actually worried about privacy, and never look back.

[โ€“] hypna 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just tried two of the instances listed with a search for "how to filter mineral spirits", and they both gave me errors. Both Google and DDG gave me an answer. Is there some trick I'm missing here?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The instances get overloaded quickly and the IPs blocked by google/Microsoft/etc.. Better off self-hosting.

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