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~~"For google level quality, pick Kagi"~~
Kagi runs circles around Google when it comes to search
DuckDuckGo has a rather questionable privacy imo
Wym?
If you ignore that all my news articles seem to have a MSN wrapper because THATS NOT FREAKING WEIRD AT ALL.
Enjoy your msn wrapped articles? They're serving content for free, running their service for free. Yet claim to take nothing in return. But they are quite profitable.
It's a bit too good to be true
If far-right politics is a factor, I found a possible issue with Mojeek: https://lemmy.ca/post/41307273
Weren't quant and ecosia both just google and bing proxies?
Yes but they are teaming up now to create their own index
Looking forward to it, but might take a while before the English internet is indexed by them: "Starting in 2025, our new index will be added into the database pool to serve results in both the French and German language. We are starting small and in the home countries of both Qwant and Ecosia respectively. "
Cool!
oh heck, nice!
"Crossposting" my comment from the feddit.uk post:
Interested in a far-out-there project, that is still very early, lacking in manpower and money, may never pan out, but has some very interesting ideas and vision?
Check out mwmbl - a project aiming to become a truly FOSS search engine, with Wikipedia-like volunteer curating of results/training of the search algorithm, as well as volunteer scraping of the web, to build it up.
If you want to participate, their non-experimental, older and more barebones interface is easier for that:
I currently use it as my go-to "first search" engine, and if I can, I help curate the search results, and then switch to Ecosia for a second search if they were useless. That already helps in slowly training the algorithm, as well as changes the results in the index real time.
You can also support the web crawling and index building efforts with either a Firefox extension, or a CLI script.. Not to brag or anything, but letting the latter run on my server has netted them a pretty hefty increase in crawled addresses, without slowing things down here on my Fediverse servers too much.
THIS IS NOT A SUITABLE DROP-IN REPLACEMENT FOR ANYTHING YET. But if you love the idea, go ahead and check it out.