Trying it these past days and I’m impressed!

I tried Kagi for a while, but it was giving me less useful results than DDG, so I simply left it. I think it depends a lot on what kinds of searches one does, and Kagi is more useful for other users.

I’ll give Qwant too a try, cheers! Testing SearXNG for a couple of days first.

Tried Startpage a while ago, but was put off but some alleged iffy dealings of the company behind it. Trying SearXNG now and I’m impressed!

I’ve been using SearXNG during the last day and I’m quite impressed too so far!

True what you say about the problems behind net search. It’s actually a very complex problem. In my opinion part of the problem is that there’s a lot (most?) of rubbish out there. It’s like a library with useful books of different genres all mixed together, and mixed with an even larger amount of nonsense books. Maybe a solution would be something completely different from indexing – but I have no idea what.

Didn’t know about several of these, cheers!

It’s very likely to depend on the kinds of searches I do, indeed. Although I think it’s the same as in the previous years. Could also be just a subjective impression, so I’ll try to keep count of how often the “!g” really leads to better results.

I’m trying SearX today, after so many recommended it. It looks promising! Thank you for pointing out the multiple-engines setup.

One possible drawback: it seems I can’t do “verbatim” searches; or at least, quotation marks don’t seem to lead to verbatim searches – I’ll try with “+”. DDG was adamant with quotation marks, that’s something I liked a lot about it.

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried Kagi a couple of times, but it missed the useful results that DDG or Google were giving, so I dropped it.

It depends of course on what kinds of searches one typically needs. Probably there isn’t a universally best search engine.

I remember reading that there was something “fishy” with Startpage, which is why I abandoned it quickly. But don’t remember where.

Luckily I don’t often search for videos, but I agree that it seems difficult to find good search alternatives there.

I’ll try qwant!

Pic 42 shows the outline where the Millennium Falcon is parked underground.

This is the Way.

IMSTOA. WDNPSEAM?

(I’m so tired of acronyms. Why don’t people write in English anymore?)

The irony of history. Scientists escaped from Nazism and Fascism to the USA almost a century ago. Now the same is happening again, for similar reasons, in the reverse direction.

This worries me indeed.

What about licences and FOSS?

So what are the atime settings in a Linux distribution like Ubuntu?

Sounds fantastic, but unfortunately none of the instructions for Debian-based, or the pre-compiled binary, or the building from source worked.

Fantastic person.

Funny that the post closes with “thank you”. So kind. I depend on K-9 Mail daily, so “thank you” from me doesn’t cut the amount of indebtedness and gratitude I have to this person. Thank you! 🙏