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Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (tech.slashdot.org)
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[–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

RE: potential astroturfing (my comment last time); from my comment downthread that one:

Anytime [paid search engines] are mentioned I suppose I’ll jump in and say…SearXNG is a popular non-commercial alternative. I wanted to throw Grasp in to give a commercial competitor a shout but they’ve “paused”.

Update on Grasp:

We will be back soon and will open-source our code.

Neat, wonder if SearXNG x Grasp would be synergistic.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I am also using SearcXNG and the search results are usually good even though sometimes on the light side and I still have to resort to other search engines.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I've been finding it very useful on various SearXNG instances to change the "language" from "auto" to "en" (English) for most of my searches, or to a specific language if I'm searching for something local or something that's likely to be written about in that specific language. The search results change drastically!

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