I’m still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don’t trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What’s the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?

Edit: I meant to also express my frustration that most browsers do not let you select a “default search engine” that can be used in the address bar aside from 3-5 pre-chosen engines. Seems like 2023 we should be able to customize that to our own liking.

Edit 2: Thanks for the recommendation of Kagi. I’m going to roll with it for a while. I see they have an extension for Safari that allows them to hijack the address bar, which is just what I needed.

  • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    My favourite feature is that you can host it yourself, you can even set it up to search over tor or VPN if you’re super privacy conscious.

    • ____@infosec.pub
      6·
      1 year ago

      I was a bit wary when I first spun up an instance, but it’s very low maintenance and mostly just works.

      Does it choke in some edge cases? Yeah, but far less often than I had expected. For my own use case it’s low resource and does exactly what it says on the tin - nothing more, nothing less.

      It’s my default across a variety of devices, and is perfectly happy behind basic auth and a minimal nginx conf.

      Occasionally I’ve even surfaced some oddball results that give me unexpected perspective on a topic.