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Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines? (lemm.ee)
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I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[–] forestG@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry if I sounded disagreeable, I didn’t mean to be. I was just taking a trip down memory lane.

No worries. Felt exactly like that. That's why my mind went to how I felt when altavista's babelfish appeared, I did the same thing for a few minutes before responding :-)

[–] liv@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Babelfish was so impressive in its day. Felt like living in the future.

Hey have you ever been to https://www.neocities.org? It's reminiscent of geocities and kind of cool.

[–] forestG@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Hey have you ever been to https://www.neocities.org? It’s reminiscent of geocities and kind of cool.

No, haven't even realised that Sheldon Brown's site was hosted there. I used to have a website up on geocities when I was a kid, browsing neocities brings back so many happy memories.. Thanks!