Notices tagged with searx
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Dec-2021 01:51:18 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} AFAIK, #Brave search uses its own crawler and index, as does #Gigablast. And let us not forget #YaCy. I intend to host a YaCy peer-to-peer search instance on its own VPS (well, shared with a #Searx instance, which will use it) -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 03-Dec-2021 17:55:20 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #LowEndBox / #LEB sending out Black Friday / Cyber Monday e-mails a week late. I'd like to get something to host #Yacy + #Searx -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jun-2021 03:00:47 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @lxo #Searx is a metasearching front end. If I want it to give the kind of results I want, I need to select good back end engines for it to use.
For example, if it uses #Bing, the results it receives from Bing will be bad ... Searx can mix better results from elsewhere to improve what it gives to its users, but why not just remove low quality searches entirely? -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 25-Mar-2021 17:09:25 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} It looks like Sarchy (search provider based first on #YaCy, then on #Searx) is gone. That page goes to a domain parking page. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Dec-2020 00:50:14 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} > ... try Bing, I've heard it ... works alright.
No idea about their filters, but I consider #Bing a failure at search. Their results are barely better than #Ask.com these days. Both #Yahoo and #DDG use their backend, but somehow have better results (but both are in steep decline).
I do admit that it may vary based on the topics one searches for, but I've been trying out #Google alternatives for years, but no matter which I use, I eventually have to use Google (even if indirectly, such as via #StartPage or #Searx). -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2020 18:23:13 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @mangeurdenuage Is #Qwant really that pervasive? #Google got to be so big because its results were better than existing search providers. Yahoo used to be close (even with a Bing backend) and #DuckDuckGo was even closer (with Bing, #Yandex, and others), but lately, using a non-G search results in just going back to G.
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The deep secret among search providers is that the "B" in #Bing stands for "broken". Despite 20+ years of Microsoft pouring money into search, its results are usually comparable in their awfulness with #Ask.
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#Seeks & #Searx can get decent results when they're set to use Google as their provider, but if an instance gets popular, it will hit its API limit. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2019 01:27:31 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @xj9 I don't see the context, but I like #YaCy's peer-to-peer search, despite their search algorithm not being anywhere close to #Google in the quality of results (probably close to #Bing, though). I have hosted YaCy instances in the past, in part to help improve the peer network's results by crawling and indexing sites related to databases, Java, Tcl, Python, PHP (the things I was searching for most often at the time).
I intend to host YaCy again (perhaps feeding a #Searx instance, so its results would not be wholly dependent on the goodwill of big corporate search engines). -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2019 14:57:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Deleting my bookmark for https://sarchy.tech/ ... it was using #YaCy (where peers crawl and index), but now it uses #Searx (which depends on the goodwill of corpocentric search providers).
Admittedly, Searx is likely to give better results, but why use them when #DDG and #Startpage do the same things, only better?
(And yes, DuckDuckGo's results have gotten much worse lately. Still not as bad as using #Bing directly, but I'm leaning more to Startpage these days.) -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2019 05:45:27 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @ajroach42 I don't think there is a good and concise write-up about #Searx. You're probably best served by trying out a few Searx instances and reading the short description on https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
There's also #Seeks https://beniz.github.io/seeks/ (last commit 2014) and #YaCy https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server (which isn't the best at finding what you're looking for). It appears that #Gigablast https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine now has a self-hostable FOSS version. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 15-Feb-2019 17:04:26 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @blort @johnnynull I noticed years ago that #DDG’s results differ from #Yahoo’s, which differ from #Bing’s. Non-bubbling may be part of it, but it doesn’t explain the sharply different results (or at least sort order of the results) between the Bing and Yahoo.
It doesn’t surprise me that #Startpage’s results differ from #Google’s, even beyond the filter bubble.
As for which to use, I use a variety, including Startpage, but the main one is determined mainly by quality of results, and Startpage’s results are generally inferior to #DuckDuckGo and to #Searx & #Seeks (but far superior to #YaCy or the abysmal results that #Ask gives). -
greg ?? (gc)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 09:15:13 UTC greg ?? datacenters do not imbue computers with special powers. if you own a desktop less than a decade old, congrats! you already own a server more than capable of hosting any and/or all of these:
- #gogs
- #nextcloud
- #pleroma
- #rocketchat
- #discourse
- #prestashop
- #funkwhale
- #hugo
- #radicale
- #standardnotes
- #prosody
- #wallabag
- #wordpress
- #etherpad
- #dokuwiki
- #ttrss
- #kanboard
- #pixelfed
- #loomio
- #pihole
- #taiga
- #kodi
- #searx
- #homeassistant
- #znc(for free, forever)
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 17:46:57 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @xj9 #Searx still depends on #corpocentric search engines for its results. It therefore depends on their good will. In this way, it is similar to #Startpage / #Ixquick and #DDG.
I'd love to see a P2P search like #Yacy, but with good results.