hello fedi! looking for an actually decent search engine! any recommendations?
by actually decent i mean:
- no “ai”. zero. whatsoever. zilch. nada. none. did i mention zero.
- not just repackaging results from other search engines
- not run by complete and utter fuckwads
thanks! :) /gen
@GroupNebula563 @asklemmy @askfedi i am not aware of any, nor do i think it’s likely that one exists.
The level of anti-bot defenses deployed across the internet in response to LLM crawlers is so high that it’s basically impossible to create an independent search index in 2026. If you’re not already one of a handful of trusted crawlers you’re just gonna get cloudflare and anubis block pages.
@GroupNebula563 @asklemmy @askfedi the one idea i had was a browser extension where users seeing an index-worthy page could click a button to manually add the DOM from their session to a curated index, after passing whatever anti scrape countermeasures were in use.
No crawling, just users voting “i think other people should be able to find this page”.
@azonenberg marginalia search is *kinda* like that
If it weren’t for point 2 I would have recommended Searx. And if it weren’t for point 1 I would have recommended Ecosia, Qwant, or Mojeek.
@GroupNebula563 @asklemmy @askfedi I’ve been daily driving Uruky, it’s got a long ways to go but progress is being made. (there’s definitely a lot of things that #Kagi still does better.)
Been trying to keep track of bugs and suggestions i have
https://code.apps.thibaultmol.link/thibaultmol/Uruky-bugs-suggestions/issues?q=&type=all&sort=relevance&state=all&labels=&milestone=0&project=0&assignee=0&poster=0&archived=falseMarginalia search is great for sifting past all the big tech results that usually show up in search and for finding smaller websites
i’m using ecosia.org and etools.ch, but these are all ‘repackaging from other engines’.
maybe try yandex (ya.ru)?
@GroupNebula563 @asklemmy @askfedi
I don’t know how they get their results or from where, but I like StartPage for the lack of AI.
