mesa@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoBe Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Bravexn--gckvb8fzb.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up118arrow-down1external-linkBe Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Bravexn--gckvb8fzb.commesa@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square37linkfedilinkfile-text
… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
minus-squareA_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months ago I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/. I mean, getting non-relevant results happens with every search engine anymore. The days of your search results being relevant, and what you want on the first page, are long dead thanks to SEO and other factors.
minus-squareN0x0n@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYeah you’re right ! However, ages ago, I still remember how you could go to page 20+ and still find some really interesting things ! Here, past page 2 it’s just some random shit…
I mean, getting non-relevant results happens with every search engine anymore.
The days of your search results being relevant, and what you want on the first page, are long dead thanks to SEO and other factors.
Yeah you’re right ! However, ages ago, I still remember how you could go to page 20+ and still find some really interesting things !
Here, past page 2 it’s just some random shit…