It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

  • m_randall@sh.itjust.works
    2116·
    10 months ago

    Come on over to Kagi! You do have to pay but I use a search engine dozens of times per day so I’m not too bothered by it.

    • cll7793@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      93·
      10 months ago

      I’ve heard a lot of great things about Kagi, though the search limit and subscription is a little off-putting. A self-hosted Kagi would be amazing though!

      • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyz
        92·
        10 months ago

        Kagi has a free trial, 100 searches for free, so you can try it out and see if you like it or not.

      • m_randall@sh.itjust.works
        63·
        10 months ago

        They now have unlimited searches for $10/mo. That’s what got me to try it out.

        You are correct though. I really do not like having all of my search history tied to my credit card (and then me). What helps me justify that is that instead of me being the product like google, by paying I’ve become the customer. Hopefully that incentivizes keeping them on the up and up.

        I did come across searnxg in this thread. It looks like that can be self hosted so I’m gonna give that a try as well.

          • Z4rK@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, you may be fine with the $5 plan, but that’s the lowest tier available.

            Afaik they are not really running a profit yet, just expanding, so that’s an eye opener to how expensive it is to run a search business and how much value Google and others estimate they get from your personal information.

            For now though their user base seems fairly much leaning towards business users that can defend this expense as part of becoming more effective professionally. Hopefully over time they’ll grow large enough to provide cheaper plans for regular persons while staying privacy focused and ad free.