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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (self.technology)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MTK to c/technology

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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Perplexity seems to work but I don’t like the idea of AI giving me “facts” since they are mostly based on other AI posts

It helps that it gives actual sources, so you can verify them. But yeah, not helpful if all of the sources end up being AI posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

And here I thought Startpage was acting up...

[–] Fedditor385 4 points 3 months ago

There are no search engines besides Google and Bing, because everyone else just uses Bing under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

So what about open source self hosted search engines? If it requires some hardware I'd gladly team up with a small group of people to finance a bigass server that just gets us our personal search engine

Any good ones out there?

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[–] taiyang 3 points 3 months ago

I wanted to make a joke about my first search engine, MetaCrawler, and then found out it's still around and still does search. Going down that rabbithole, it's changed hands a ton and was only relaunched kinda recently at some point. Is it any good? Nah, probably not.

I guess I'll just have to rely on my other aggregate search engine, SavvySearch (no, no the first search engine does not in fact still exist, much to my disappointment).