Another useful feature for power users that Google is killing.

They don’t care about us that day they we have a problem and the solution is in a now defunct site. That doesn’t generate revenue. “When People search on Google they need to find what they need on a click on the ads”, the shareholders are saying

    • pirat@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      If you figure out how to search “correctly” on SearXNG instances, some of them are pretty good (though they source part of their results from google). That’s how I search most of the time nowadays. I’ve found a favourite instance and a few backups. My most important advice is: to change the default language from “auto” to “en”, and only change it to some other locale for results specifically in that language/country.

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        2 years ago

        If I understand correctly, isn’t that just a meta search that is using corporate results as the back end?

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          2 years ago

          It is indeed, but in my experience it’s somehow better than the corporate backends at presenting the “correct” results to me.