I have used SearXNG for a while, but I switched to LibreX after the search engine started glitching. Recently, though, LibreX has stopped returning any results. I am currently on Mojeek, but the results aren’t that great.

I have also tried Qwant, but I wasn’t too keen on it. Startpage will be impractical, as I use a VPN and this engine often blocks me because of it. I don’t want to use Brave Search for a number of reasons. MetaGer has too many important features behind its paywall. I’m not sure about DuckDuckGo, but I could use it if there was no other option.

Any suggestions, or am I being too picky?

  • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I used SearXNG for over a month but found myself routinely returning to Google for either tech problem searches or because it was returning irrelevant results for homonyms.

    I would love to return to it. Do you have any tips for better search results?

    • chayleaf@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago
      1. Depending on your language, use language codes like :en or :de. Very important if your native language isn’t English.
      2. You can choose the search engine using DDG shebangs like !g (or redirect yourself to Google using !!g
      3. If SearxNG using Google gives you much worse results, it just means Google has that much info about you. Nonetheless, that’s not my experience
    • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      You can choose which search engines you actually want to use. SearXNG is a meta search engine, which means it just queries other search engines for their results. Lots of it’s results are some random wikis which most of the time do not help.