• Sr Estegosaurio
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    2 years ago

    Searx. It is a meta search engine but imho is the best one out there

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      2 years ago

      Still needs better UX/UI if it ever wants to get close to being used by average folk. That’s how DDG and Startpage grew so much.

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          Oh, I had no idea it existed, I stopped using searX around that time.

          I admit some instances have a design that looks MUCH better than before, but it’s still not good enough for the general public, since most larger instances still use searX instead of searXNG and not all instances have a nice looking interface still.

          That said, I’ll give one of the instances a shot as my main search engine.

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              2 years ago

              yes you can, but most instances don’t use the new, nice looking theme

              those that used it by default were the only ones at least, and I don’t have the funds to host my own instance, which I’d certainly like to do tho

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                  2 years ago

                  Yes, but again, not all instances have the newer theme as an option.

                  The newer theme I’m talking about is a newer, more modern version of the already existing simple theme. Most instances still use the older version of it, that looks terrible in comparison.

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      2 years ago

      doesn’t that also not solve the problem if the search engines it is searching are manipulating results?