public #searx instances
https://searx.space
#searxng #search #internetsearch

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ottaross/115905574884070113

I have just spent the last little while altering my search engine settings on three browsers; replacing DuckDuckGo with No-AI DuckDuckGo, and adding No-AI Qwant. And then doing it all again because I made mistakes. It's fine now, though. I think.

#InternetSearch #DeGoogle #WebSearch

You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.

I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.

(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).

#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch

I seem to be on a roll with my blog lately, surpassing my goal of at least one post a month.

#InternetSearch: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2025/12/internet-search-yesterday-today-tomorrow.html

Can one of the search engines support an operator that lets me search for informational articles on non-commercial websites please #internetsearch #capitalism

Today is #FreeWebSearch Day! 🔎🌐

Free Web Search Day is an annual event promoting free, open and transparent #internetsearch.

As a partner in the @openwebsearcheu project, LRZ is working on the development of a European infrastructure for #websearch. Find out why this is important in this video: https://vimeo.com/1072290094/2ae3702438?share=copy

Further information about Free Web Search Day: https://freewebsearch.org/

#Internet #freeinternet #FWSD #FreeWebSearchDay

Advice from my former employer.

"Public media is facing cuts and new challenges and your trust means a lot. By choosing MPR News as a preferred source, you’re supporting independent, fact-checked local journalism."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/09/choose-mpr-news-how-to-get-google-to-show-our-stories-in-your-search-results

#PublicMedia #InternetSearch #journalism

Techdirt: New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’. “…now, as a sneaky amendment to a completely unrelated bill, Russia has passed a law that will criminalize searching for any content the Russian government decides is verboten.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/techdirt-new-russian-law-will-criminalize-internet-searches-for-extremist-content/

Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663227

Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.

#GoogleSearch #SERP #LLM #InternetSearch

I try not to talk about computery stuff too much on the fedi, because a) it's not my field, and b) the fedi already has too much computery talk on it for my tastes. However, what does everyone think of this setup for internet searches for mobile and desktop? Any suggestions for more non-GBY (google/bing/yandex) search engines with their own indexes to include? Or cool domain specific ones? Preferably not Brave either!

I've been using duckduckgo for a while but their new "Feature" of an AI assist was the final straw to try startpage.com

Are there any other good ones?

#InternetSearch #Internet

Now when I use DuckDuckGo to search the internet for casual information I get a special box of info called “Assist”. At the bottom of the box: “Auto-generated based on listed sources. May contain inaccuracies.”

What the? May contain inaccuracies? Why do it then? Just to waste my time?

What is this brave new world of possibly inaccurate information & what do I do about it?

Edit: Thanks to Mark C @markc568 for the solution: “Clivk the gear and you can turn it off for all searches”. It worked! Mark C is my hero!

#MayContainInaccuracies #DuckDuckGo #InternetSearch #InformationSearch #ArtificialIdiot #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses

🎉 Big news, everyone! Kagi Assistant is now available to ALL (*huge gasp*) users who are totally okay with paying $15/month for a "beautiful" interface and the privilege of unmanipulated internet searches. 🤔 Because, clearly, nothing screams "humanize the web" like yet another subscription model. 🚀💸
https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all #KagiAssistant #SubscriptionModel #UserExperience #InternetSearch #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

Ask HN: Do you still use search engines? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619768

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
https://kagi.com/
https://kagi.com/pricing

Thoughts about Kagi search engine : privacy
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1bmubkd/thoughts_about_kagi_search_engine/

#LLM #InternetSearch #Google #Kagi

Duck Duck Go is garbage, I’ve tried to stick with it, but I really need something better. Ugh. Not going to use G, tho.

#InternetSearch #DuckDuckGo

I Quit Google for ChatGPT/other AI Search: I’m Not Going Back
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-search-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-6ac749d9
WSJ, ugh! Non-paywalled: https://archive.fo/hTPST

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43481261

Google searches (ALL ads-for search) SUCK!. Shopping websites too !! 🤬

#GoogleSearch #LLM #ChatGPT #InternetSearch

I asked the author, and indeed these are different, and she sent me a link to a page explaining the differences, a page which has, as its title, 'phrase 1 vs phrase 2: what are the differences'.

A properly functioning search engine would have placed this page at the top of the results. But in our current world of AI-influenced search, this page didn't show up.

#InternetSearch #SearchEngines #SearchWoes