Also you can turn off ads on ddg.
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Lol, just did the same thing.
yup, literally just use a good seatch engine and you'll find everything you need (idek what OP is using is that startpage?)
OP is using SearxNG, an Open-Source, Self Host able metasearch engine which is not going to work well unless you set your own settings correctly and tailor them to how you use the web. StartPage is just proxied google results. SearxNG can proxy StartPage, but these results are from Bing.
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That's because this is an ad for PieFed.
I know. I'm trying not to use DuckDuckGo because of their AI support. I was told this was a good search engine to use instead, but it often spits random stuff back at me.
The noai.duckduckgo.com URL is important to notice in the screenshot.
SearXNG is a mixed bag to be honest...I find that Ononoki's SearXNG delivers decent results...It's a bit mixed at times with PieFed being the third option. Some topics are surfaced better than others, so your mileage will vary with SearXNG.
Using the No AI version of DuckDuckGo sends them a message that their bet on "AI" isn't going to win them any accolades. It's an easy way to push back. As they are tracking those metrics and people can see the numbers of how many users disapprove of AI.
Bing and yahoo are VERY bad, it seems they detect that they are being used through proxies, I made another comment for what i use in searxng.
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Not even google tries to hide it
Instead of getting a search service with some ads on the side, you're provided ads with search results sprinkled in
to use searx(ng) effectively you'll need to set up your own preferences, not the default
from the screenshot, the instance caches and shows results from bing only, ass.
it also use auto as default which will show personalized language results based on the instance's ip (although it's mainly yours), change that to all
you can do both just by changing and saving your preferences. for example here's mine
Switch to Startpage, it's actually pretty great
Owned by an ad company = TRASH.
Wait, it is?
Startpage is System1
I like Startpage, but I had to switch to DDG because it was giving me captchas constantly for using a VPN.
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I switched to Quant.
Did that too, but I always make a typo and end up using Qwant. Works great though.
Bing on searxng is shit, yahoo ultimately is bad too, I use this combination, it helps a lot:
I searched up how to stop a stratis pool (Redhat knockoff ZFS) and Google gleefully gave me instructions to destroy the stratis pool, and then claimed there was no way to take down a stratis pool without destroying the data.
I think clicked on the top link which was a RedHat article that told you right from the beginning that it's stratis pool stop --name
Only reason I had to even search was because I didn't have the stratis CLI installed, so no manpage
We're rapidly approaching a time where you have to curate your own list of helpful websites again, cause search engines are useless.
https://www.mankier.com/
This doesn't look right:
I use searxng too, it's decent mostly. Check your language settings?
I see you're trying to solve the problem, that's nice 🙂
But I had to laugh at the sites logic: Let's detect users language, Ah! Must be country xyz, with knowing that: Go to chat GPT and ask there 😂
It's such a bad search result, doesn't matter if language is set or not.
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I hate subs, for any kind of entertainment most of all, but I think they’re necessary for VPN/private email.
I’m adding an another item to that list. Kagi. De-enshittified search results. My partner bought it, so it’s a shared sub, but I’m sold on it. It’s like it’s 2005 again, and that’s a good thing.
I tried it out one time because another user here, Tal, usually put it into their very well made comments, so I tried it out.
Yeah, I've been paying for it for almost two years(?) and I never have these difficulties any more. Very happy customer. :)
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I use Qwant search
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