What search engines do you use?

[plm00@lemmy.ml]

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?

[shimitar@feddit.it]

Self hosted SearXNG

[leanleft@lemmy.ml]

when people say searx, i want to know.. is it duckduckgo or google or both?

[akasazh@feddit.nl]

hotbot ftw

[eru@mouse.chitanda.moe]

it is a metasearch engine, that is, it searches google, ddg, and others (configurable) and aggregates the results

[wuphysics87@lemmy.ml]

Like the old Dog Pile

[wuphysics87@lemmy.ml]

Ddg is more or less a proxy, but yes

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

Quackquackyo

[crabandbroom@lemmy.ml]

I've been kind of liking Brave Search lately, even though I'm not really a fan of the browser.

[boomkop3@reddthat.com]

I wish they'd just stop wasting their time on ai

[a_chilean_cyborg@feddit.cl]

Brave search, not my browser, but reasonable engine.

[mojeek@lemmy.ml]

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.

[yuki@programming.dev]

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

[bamboo@lemm.ee]

I use the assistant, because it has so many models to choose from. I hope they can make a mobile app for it in the future

[boomkop3@reddthat.com]

It works in a web browser, especially ez if you enable the quick assist

[boomkop3@reddthat.com]

I don't like how ai tends to be a lot worse and slower at fact checking and searching than me

[nutwrench@lemmy.ml]

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It's also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

[mojeek@lemmy.ml]

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.

[yuki@programming.dev]

Japanese mostly, not a neo latin language.

[mojeek@lemmy.ml]

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