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Re:PriEco: Open-source, private search engine by anenefan on Saturday February 03, 2024 @07:21PM (#39246171)
Reading through previous comments ... yes smart to check for cached google results and use them only ... my experience about maybe 1 to 2 % of non cached results ever had any useful info in them, so ignoring non cached is the way to go - I say that as someone who typically conducted at least a couple hundred focused searches (ie the use of numerous switches which used to work with google) on google every day up until around 2014 or so - as well as a few other search engines to seek out the really hard to find stuff. [If it were easy it wouldn't have been something I'd be doing.]

Further comment though is, though I'm unsure if quotes in the search box do the same thing, what makes a really good search engine is if all the words placed in the search box, are included in results. I'm not seeing this ... in fact I just tested and a third of the page were results that only had one of the key words. I just modified the settings to turn off safe mode and set to all regions ... sadly the site now is just white apart from the search bar ... no results. Set it back and it's sort of working ...

Re:PriEco: Open-source, private search engine by JojoYou on Sunday February 04, 2024 @06:15AM (#39249351)
Hey, thank you for the feedback! I will look into it, I guess there is somewhere bug with the quotes as well as the white page.

Sorry for it, will get back to you when fixed.

Re:PriEco: Open-source, private search engine by JojoYou on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:01AM (#39249570)
The white page should be fixed now. I am unsure about the quotes.

Maybe you are using https://search.jojoyou.org/pri version? This version uses only own index and I haven't added there support for quotes yet.

In https://search.jojoyou.org/ quotes should work. (But I haven't done any changes to it yet)

Re:PriEco: Open-source, private search engine by anenefan on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:22AM (#39258578)
A much better experience, quotes appear to work. As for a page of white with search bar, I still get this with setting safe off, changing region appears to be fixed.
Re:PriEco: Open-source, private search engine by JojoYou on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:49AM (#39258803)
Uhhhh! I see it now. I will debug it today, this is a big issue. Sorry for poor user experience
Re:PriEco: Open-source, private search engine by JojoYou on Monday February 05, 2024 @10:41AM (#39262290)
It should be fixed now. Please tell me if you are still experiencing issues
Re:PriEco: Open-source, private search engine by anenefan on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:53AM (#39271240)
Confirm that issue is sorted.