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I had been using DDG for years but switched to SearXNG last fall after reading about it on Lemmy. It’s a privacy focused meta-search engine that can even be self-hosted. It’s wildly customizable and I’ve been pretty happy with the results.
If you’re not interested in self-hosting, or just want to test drive it a bit, there are lots of public instances you can use as well.
https://github.com/searxng/searxng
List of public instances
Man I fucking love this community sometimes. This is like the 5th fantastic self hostable open source software I've seen since joining lemmy, and every time, it gives me that feeling of discovering the internet all over again.
Share the other 4 :)
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
I'm clearly not understanding something here, but I thought search engines would require loads of space to index all the internet. Just thinking about the ability to search for code on stackoverflow seems like loads already.
Edit:
Found it!
Looks very interesting, thanks for commenting about it.
I've switched to searx as well.
I added an instance as a custom search on my firefox mobile app using this string.
https://ooglester.com/search?q=%sWhoa thank you!!!