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What are the highest quality search engines? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by cll7793@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

Forum Search Engine: https://crowdview.ai/
Non-commercial Search: https://search.marginalia.nu/
Libre Meta Search Engine: https://librey.devol.it/
Golden Age Search Engine: https://www.wiby.org/
Yandex: https://yandex.com/

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

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[–] MSids@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

They are high thinking people will pay $5/mo for search AND being limited to 300 searches/mo. I avoid subscriptions at all cost, so if I were ever to consider paying for search it would need to be a completely forgettable number like .99/mo.

[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you are still paying for search, you just don't know it (yet).

[–] MSids@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not lost on me, I get it, don't pretend like you're the only one who understands how advertising works on the Internet. That's the agreement with anything you don't directly pay for. The fee that Kago is asking for is unreasonable in my opinion.

[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

sure, we all value things differently. For me this subscription is nothing but a rounding error.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh yikes, I have to do a lot of searches as part of my job (software developer). I would be through that quota ridiculously quickly. It looks like they have a $10/month tier one up from there with unlimited searches and some extra features, though.

[–] Eddyzh@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you are not paying for it you are not the customer but the product.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

Man I sure love Microsoft, they don't treat me like a product since I pay for all their services and Windows, unlike that filth Linux which is full of data harvesting CIA spyware and ads.