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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by MTK@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

So what about open source self hosted search engines? If it requires some hardware I'd gladly team up with a small group of people to finance a bigass server that just gets us our personal search engine

Any good ones out there?

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Searxng, but there are plenty of instances already

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Perplexica is interesting too, but it uses a moderate amount of ram because of elastic search.

And of course you need to have ollama running

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Very cool

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