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Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

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Post by mtlynch »

kstrauser wrote: post #6

I gladly pay for Kagi because the experience is so much better that it’s worth it to me.

Also a happy Kagi user since 2023, and full disclosure: I participated in their crowdfund, so I have some financial stake in the company that I don't really understand.

I'm always surprised when I see people say, "I can't imagine paying for a search engine."

Imagine if you lived in a city with horrible air pollution, and you were coughing all the time and coming down with mysterious respiratory illnesses. And then you go to a friend's house in the same city who's happy and healthy, and it turns out they have an air filter they pay $10/mo for. And your reaction is, "I can't imagine paying $10/mo just to breathe air."

Pay for search! Get out of the ad-optimized Google black hole. This is a tool you use hundreds of times per month and it fundamentally influences the way you experience the web. It's something that should be a no-brainer to pay for even if it was only marginally better than Google, but I've found it significantly better than Google in most dimensions.

Re: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

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Post by erelong »

https://search.brave.com

other things that came up in a search not mentioned in post yet (that I have heard of before):

mojeek or yacy - are these any good?

list of searx instances (I've used some of these a while ago but not recently so idk of their quality currently): https://searx.space/

Re: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

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Post by esseph »

cachius wrote: post #25
slig wrote: post #16

https://search.brave.com/ Feels like Google Search from 2008.

The name collision with the browser is a bit unfortunate. If you set it to default search engine in Chrome on mobile, 'Search with Brave' is very ambiguous!

Same company

Re: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

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Post by [deleted] »

cyanregiment wrote: post #3

We need it - I’d use 3 search engines. It’s not like MMOs or social media where 1 winner takes all. I think people want more search options, cloud, email, and so-on. I once tried to index the web with local Mistral 7b. Here’s what I did: 1. Copy/pasted an English dictionary and removed the definitions, so I just had an Array of about 500k words. 2. Wrote a simple loop to iterate over the words, with the instruction t…

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Re: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

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Post by esseph »

cyanregiment wrote: post #3

We need it - I’d use 3 search engines. It’s not like MMOs or social media where 1 winner takes all. I think people want more search options, cloud, email, and so-on. I once tried to index the web with local Mistral 7b. Here’s what I did: 1. Copy/pasted an English dictionary and removed the definitions, so I just had an Array of about 500k words. 2. Wrote a simple loop to iterate over the words, with the instruction t…

You could just pull tls cert registrations CT logs, way easier.

Or https://crt.sh

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