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What is the least SEO-fucked search engine? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Use a decentralized SearXNG instance and have it query every search engine that exists on the internet, or host your own of you're really actually worried about privacy, and never look back.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just tried two of the instances listed with a search for "how to filter mineral spirits", and they both gave me errors. Both Google and DDG gave me an answer. Is there some trick I'm missing here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The instances get overloaded quickly and the IPs blocked by google/Microsoft/etc.. Better off self-hosting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

+1 for SearXNG. I've personally found mostly better results, for my use cases, than Google or duckduckgo, although I keep DDG as a backup.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

SearXNG is great.

I think the features I'm missing are easily adding more engines (haven't looked much into it), and automatically blacklisting domains from coming up in searches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

+1 for SearXNG… I run my own instance in docker, and host it through a cloud flare tunnel. I set all my “web browser bars” on all my devices to auto use its address, so I don’t even have to think about it, and all my searches are auto routed through my instance. It’s Great!