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Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News (www.reuters.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Thank you! I'm intrigued by Kagi but it's a lot of money. I've tried SearXNG before it wasn't great for me, I'll try it again.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I hope you find more success with it this time. Like I said not all SearXNG instances are equal paulgo.io was the first to really click with me and give useful results. Some SearXNG instances won't query google or most other engines making their usefulness rather limited. Also the more popular an instance becomes the more likely it will be rate-limited by search engines which isn't the fault of the instance but can be an occasional annoyance for sure. Not perfect solution by any means but I think SearX would be a great fit for lots of people here who just want google results without all the spyware ad bs

    Nice choice of lemmy instance, btw. Pubnixes like SDF rule!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm trying this instance out at the moment and it feels great! Do you know how to get the autocomplete to work on Firefox android? I'm looking for search suggestion API url but can't seem to find it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Genuine question, what happens to SearX if google pulls the plug on API access or changes the algorithm in a way that makes it worse?

    If Kagi got an actual code audit done I would be a lot more on board with it. The audit they do show appears to just be penetration testing, not focused on the code itself but I don't know much about so maybe there is more to it that I don't understand.

    I wish it were easier for developers to monetize their projects while leaving them open source. Tutanota is a good example of open source code used in a paid service. With tutanota however it seems like what you pay for is the service, not the software.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I am not the most knowledgeable person on searxng innerworkings so may be wrong, but searxng instances usually use the 'get' and 'post' commands to request+fetch http/https content not an API key. You can get your own api keys/tokens from google and plug them in to searx in the preferences menu if they ever make it API only. There's a lot of IT academic research that relies on google they will most likely never pull API access fullstop but you never you I guess.

    There is not much if anything SearXNG instances can do if google changes algorithm. In worst case scenario it can still index other search engines which themselves scrape google like startpage or engines completely independent like duckduckgo, bing, brave, YaCy, ect. Here is a list of all configured engines SearXNG uses by default you can go into preferences at top right of searXNG to configure what engines you want to use among other things.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It just worries me that there isn't really a google competitor if all the alternatives rely on google not screwing up a product. It seems like honest search results are becoming less of a thing they care about.

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