Ask HN: Any resonably good alternate search engines?

Posted by capybara_2020 on Friday April 15, 2022 @11:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Any alternatives to Google and DDG?

Of late Google seems to give me the exact opposite of what I searching. So I type in something like

"What are the WRONG ways to do X"

and the results are

"Here are 10 great ways to do X"

Quotation marks do not seem to work for some reason.

Plus all the SEO spam. Entire categories of questions seem to be out of limits because the results are so suspect.

DDG is terrible at local results. I keep getting American results even when I mention a city and country.

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Re:Ask HN: Any resonably good alternate search engines? by zfoz on Saturday April 16, 2022 @02:53AM (#31050198)

Have you tried Kagi Search? I've been using it for a while and it's pretty good. The search time seems to be around 0.2s on average, which is noticeable. The search results seem relevant and I like the customizability.

The only downsides are that you have to sign up for their private beta, which takes a while, and that it will be subscription-based upon their official launch.

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Re:Ask HN: Any resonably good alternate search engines? by tintedfireglass on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:12AM (#31052935)

I had the same problem so started this project, currently it just lists 70search engines, planning to review them after summer https://github.com/Tintedfireglass/search-engines

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Re:Ask HN: Any resonably good alternate search engines? by disadvantage on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:28PM (#31053654)

Self hosted Searx[0].

Or another approach: use multiple search engines + an anonymous proxy. Spread your searches among Qwant, Mojeek, Ecosia, Yacy, Swisscows, etc

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx

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Re:Ask HN: Any resonably good alternate search engines? by formerkrogemp on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:51AM (#31049581)

Have you tried brave web search?

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Re:Ask HN: Any resonably good alternate search engines? by swethmandava on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:46AM (#31050483)

Have you tried https://you.com/search?q=What+are+the+WRONG+ways+to+do+garde... ?

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