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Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] 5 points 3 days ago (6 children)

SearXNG works better than Google ever has, and it allows you to remain private af if self hosted.

Who needs google?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 days ago (5 children)

    Um what? Self-hosting search that actually covers the internet requires way more resources than people are likely to have. There are things you can self-host, but global internet search is not one of them.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    As I understand it, SearXNG is a decentralized and anonymized peer-to-peer network of search-engine scrapers. So you're not self-hosting the search engines, you're self-hosting a node in the network that scrapes real search engines. It's basically search-piracy, except I don't think they've managed or bothered to make it illegal yet, so, enjoy it as long as we can.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Kinda, SearXNG uses google/bing/ddg/etc to do the actual search

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Yes, and it removes the AI, ads, and sponsored results,; then it uses its own algorithm to order the results more relevantly than google/bing/ddh/etc

    You can also choose from which of those search engines (there’s like over 100) it includes results

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    It doesn't take many resources at all actually. I run it on an old quadcore i5 with like 8gb of RAM lol.

    Regardless, its still way better than google even if you use a public instance, the benefit of the private instance is just that it obfuscates your queries from 3rd parties.

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