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Is there a federated or open source search engine alternative? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Im noticing its harder and harder to find things on google. Searching for a companies quarterly profits, cost of medical care for all per capita, and othet economic details are all getting more and more buried in google. Just asking how other contries do their social programs results in us based opionion articles....like wtf are we even doing.

I understand scrolling and indexing sites is an enormous undertaking. Is there currently a federated open source search engine? If not is their a potential to create one?

Is there a trustworthy private option?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (6 children)

search.trom.tf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Great product, but why did they pick such a terrible domain? This is hard to remember. Search engines built their empires off of easily memorized names, which is an excellent model to follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Great product, but why did they pick such a terrible domain? This is hard to remember. Search engines built their empires off of easily memorized names, which is an excellent model to follow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems to be using searXNG. Routes the search query to different instances

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

yes, lot of folks dont know where to start with searxng so this is nice and simple and just works

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Awsome thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is actually super cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I gotta shout out trom when I can, they're doing great work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

wow, thanks for sharing, that's awesome