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Ask HN: Any resonably good alternate search engines?
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.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoHave you tried brave web search?
- zfoz 4y agoHave 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.
- swethmandava 4y agoHave you tried https://you.com/search?q=What+are+the+WRONG+ways+to+do+gardening https://you.com/search?q=What+are+the+WRONG+ways+to+do+garde... ?
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- goldphotograph1 4y ago
- tintedfireglass 4y agoI 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 https://github.com/Tintedfireglass/search-engines
- disadvantage 4y agoSelf 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx