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Having a dark theme is optional.

I'm tired of duckduckgo's retard results and searx's confusing and non-related results (being a pain to use it private windows since all configuration is cleaned etc.)

Sorry for not elaborating much, I'm too tired and have a test tomorrow, see ya comrades.

duckduckgo's results are retarded because google's results are

>>22266
there aren't any better general search engines. bookmark some specific searches and get gud.
>private windows
what do you think you're using private windows for? browser anti-fingerprinting is a piss in the ocean, donottrack makes you trackable and some browsers even disable adblockers in "private" mode. it gives you the illusion of privacy by temporarily clearing site data.
install umatrix and make data non-persistent instead. a well-configured umatrix will block most forms of fingerprinting and history wiping insures against that which happens regardless.
>dark theme
get a userstyles manager, inspect the page and start writing some css.

I think search engines, or at least web crawlers are just conceptually flawed. SEO will always emerge and ruin it.
I've had better luck just making an html document and taking note of sites that may help me find information I might need later, and setting that as my homepage.

>>22267
getting the results directly from google is actually better since the whole algorithm is designed to be tailored to an individual anyways

>>22271
to sell you stuff, sure.

haha funny picture OP

>>22267
doesn't duckduckgo get results from bing?

>>22267
And they're better than Google's for most queries.

DuckDuckGo started showing me completely unrelated results in my native language, even though the query was in English and I do not set it to limit the results to any region.

I fucking LOVE that having "4chan" anywhere in your search terms will automatically make it so your only results are wikipedia articles about neonazi shit and NOTHING else.

>>22274
are you sure about that?
>>22335
i mean, what did you expect? seriously.
>>22268
thanks for the tips, it was a bit of a slap, but i'll try them. thanks again anon

>>22578
I mean regardless of what terms you use, as long as there's "4chan" somewhere, you will get more or less the same results every time.

>>22271
reminder that google is fascist(just like all of big tech and all other bourgeois/proprietary infrastructure)

yandex is better, and searx is kinda cringe

>>22580
are you saying yandex isnt bourgeois nor proprietary?

>>22582
I mean, a non-bourgeois search engine doesn't exist(metasearch engines don't count because they depend on other search engines that are bourgeois/proprietary)

>>22579
fair enough.
>>22580
>yandex is better
isn't yandex proprietary? the only thing about yandex that i like is the fact that reverse image search is reeaaally good, especially when compared to others reverse image search engines.

>and searx is kinda cringe

ngl sometimes it is. auto-detect language feature is garbage, failing most of the time. some results are interesting but aren't the norm.

>>22583
>a non-bourgeois search engine doesn't exist

could you elaborate?

>>22590
>could you elaborate?
have you found one? I haven't

yandex is also good for torrents, since they don't hide torrent sites

>>22579
4chan is probably mainly a white supremacist site now
even if you go to one of the more side boards, you'll find a bunch of idiots complaining about minorities and not much else

>>22590
>touch light
atheist here. do christians believe satan can be redeemed? what about judaism and islam?

>>22600
no. satan is le evil guy. he can never be redeemed and will never be wholesome bronze age keanu reeves chungus

>>22602
satan did less evil than god. a comparison between the two would show who's actually evil

>>22591
>have you found one? I haven't
got a point (i didn't read the metasearch engines part).

thing is: even if the engine is completely open source they'll still gotta have its database/index from somewhere, and i dont know if there's a open source thing like this

>>22599
>4chan is probably mainly a white supremacist site now
indeed. even searching for something """wholesome"""/"""entertaining""" about it, always have a redirection to a nazi article about it.

>even if you go to one of the more side boards, you'll find a bunch of idiots complaining about minorities and not much else

i used to lurk on /wg/ and /po/, and it's amazing that even there were some retards saying "i want to suck hitler's balls :pppp" fuck that site

>>22590
>touch light, Lucifer
Christians don't even know their own mythology.

>>22690
I still laughed at it even though it is unfunny.

>>22599
you can still post anti-nazi stuff and it won't be gone. as bad as 4chan is, i like that you can post opposing views. on other communities online if you are not 100% in lock-step with the normie userbase, your posts disappear or you get banned.

>>22696
Absolutely false, Pol mods actively remove non nazi OPs

>>22697
>/pol/
the site is more than that board. I don't go there anyway because it's the worst board but you can still post pretty freely on all other boards.

>>22702
Well I haven't really tried the other boards but I don't know why you would want to, it's literally just 75% racism and/or anti LGBT shit.

>>22703
idk, I like fewer restrictions for whatever reason, could be because I miss the old internet where you could post shocking stuff and if someone didn't want to see it they could just avoid it (I still haven't seen any of those old shock videos like Mr horse or whatever because I never wanted to). 4chan still has a lot of restrictions but I still find like the anonymous aspect of it and that people feel free-er to say things whether they be unpleasant or not.

>>22704
thats a myth, 4chan was a lot more ban happy before when it had a tenth of the current userbase

>>22705
People used to be proud of being banned.

I've been thinking about the idea of a US government run search engine. Free, no ads, no sponsored results, and no bias towards mainstream searches. It would be more specific like old Google. It would still clean out obviously illegal results like CP/etc.
Let's say there was a federal agency kind of like the Post Office but dedicated to running public internet services such as a search engine, map service, e-mail, and even a social media platform.
Let's also say that it wasn't immediately undermined by political interference and it was actually allowed to work properly (which is obviously unlikely).
How well would it go? Would it be more functional than the competition? Would it be possible for them to continuously adjust their search algorithm to counteract SEO bot spam?
Also are there any actual things like this in real life in other countries?

>>22711
Search engines exercise a lot of power over user behavior, demostrated by how they currently exist.
If a government run search engine were to be established, intelligence would heavily lobby for the right to siphon user data, politicians would regularly try to impose their agenda under the pretext of public morals and after a while the public entity could be spun of into a profitable public company.
I cannot see search engines being important enough as infrastructure to counteract these developement. Hell despite the importance of broadband in the US and the regulations surrounding it, ISPs are notoriously unreliable and predatory. Some people even use cell phone networks at home because of how bad things are.

There used to be a very solid search engine called Gigablast.com, programmed and operated by a single guy (you would not ever guess that from the product!), but I stopped using it because it required cookies and javascript. Went looking for it because of this thread, but it vanished in April.

There are two good passion projects now, both with usually very good results if they have anything to show for your query: https://wiby.org/ and https://search.marginalia.nu/ (source: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch)

>>22711
The government of each country should have at least a search engine for the texts on its own websites.

>>22696
muh freeze peach
good luck having your post ignored or flamed because it doesn't have the obligatory tie-in to how hecking tr*nnies are ruining Western Civilization with immigrants
if you fill your website with a bunch of 14-year-old neo-Nazis and Fox News watchers, it doesn't matter what rules, or lack of rules, there are at that point


I read often, how people complain about search engines. Ok, but what are you actually searching? Or WHY are you actually searching? What are you looking for? Truth??! In the realm of politics, all search engines are glow engines. The big search engines from Baidu, Google up to Yandex are all instruments of propaganda by the most powerful states in the world. The smaller ones like DDG or Qwant are just controlled opposition. Then there are also some pretty odd ones like Marginalia and Wiby, but they are just toys. Bois, it's 2024. The internet is corporatized and the most powerful states in the world control it. The internet has already died, but it has been zombiefied.

But maybe I misunderstood all this discussion about search engines, so I ask again: What are you searching?

I read often, how people complain about search engines. Ok, but what are you actually searching? Or WHY are you actually searching? What are you looking for? Truth??! In the realm of politics, all search engines are glow engines. The big search engines from Baidu, Google up to Yandex are all instruments of propaganda by the most powerful states in the world. The smaller ones like DDG or Qwant are just controlled opposition. Then there are also some pretty odd ones like Marginalia and Wiby, but they are just toys. Bois, it's 2024. The internet is corporatized and the most powerful states in the world control it. The internet has already died, but it has been zombiefied.

But maybe I misunderstood all this discussion about search engines, so I ask again: What are you searching?

>>22712
>Some people even use cell phone networks at home because of how bad things are.

I do it also, but I'm doing it voluntarily. Banning unlimited broadband internet from my life was one of my best decisions ever. Life is much more quiet and less cluttered now.

YaCy is the communist search engine. It's a P2P network that anybody can run a node on.
https://yacy.net/demonstration_tutorial_screenshot/

>>25040
>YaCy is the communist search engine.

Yeah sure, mr. glownonymous agent smith.

>>25041
>I got nothing so I'll call node users sus
nta you dumb retard. On topic, here's some new search shit
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/04/25/how-i-search-in-2024/

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>>25042
You think, you can outsmart the glowies with your Tor talisman?

>>25042
>The results were so good that I immediately bought a subscription and switched my default search engine in my web and mobile browser to Kagi.

This reads like an advertisement.

>>25046
>my first retarded gambit failed so I'll try an even more retarded critique of tor
>>25050
>personal blogpost with 17 readers must be an advertisement
post something useful or gtfo out of /tech/ retards

>>25050
Funny you say that since it also refers to this article: "Why I Lost Faith in Kagi"
https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
<First of all, as a project, Kagi stretches itself way too thin. "Kagi" isn't just Kagi Search, it's also a whole slew of AI tools, a Mac-only web browser called Orion, and right now they are planning on launching an email service as well. None of these projects are particularly profitable, so it's not a case of one subsidizing the other, and when they announced Kagi Email even their most dedicated userbase (aka the types who hang around in a fbi.gov for a search engine) seemed largely disinterested. For products this niche, I don't think you can afford to be running multiple niche products at once. Your developers are going to be running far too ragged to keep them all going. Last I could find Kagi employs about 16 employees, half full time. Presumably not every single one of those 8 or so full timers are web devs. That's not a lot of people to throw at this many things.
<(…)
<As it turns out, Kagi was founded originally as an AI company, who later pivoted to search. And going by their comments in their fbi.gov, AI tools seem to be what they spend most of their time on these days. They're launching AI features left and right, and they have fully bought into AI being the future of search. They believe that by embracing AI, that will be the thing that sets their product apart (kinda late now) and get them the kind of userbase that can keep them afloat financially. They have "FastGPT", where their focus is having a ChatGPT style service that is focused on being fast, not accurate. And boy, it sure isn't, I messed around with this for a while and it very confidently gave me a lot of extremely inaccurate information about old sitcoms. But of course, it's all stuff where if you didn't already know the answer to the question you asked you wouldn't know it was wrong–like when I asked it about the All in the Family episode Cousin Liz, it kept identifying the woman Edith and Archie are talking to in the episode as Cousin Liz, but Cousin Liz is instead Edith's deceased cousin who they were attending a funeral for. Following a theme I asked it more broadly about homosexuality in All in the Family and it spit out a bunch of text repeatedly saying that Lionel Jefferson was gay. But I guess it did spit all of this wrong information at me faster than some of the alternatives!

4get

>>25163
>Glowiepol mod recommends glowie site

This board stinks and is full of glowies. Never trust leftypol mods.

>>25166
Zankaira glows? How?

>>25170
Z. recommended 4get, a very sus site. There is absolutely no reason to trust 4get. At best, it is just a wrapper, but I don't think, thats the case.

>>22603
God is basically a cop and Satan was like “fuck you bro I wanna party without your racist ass"

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>>22600
>>22602
>>22603
>>25196
Satan is just god's kink fursona for when he gets bored of chilling in heaven listening to the non stop harp music for eternity.

Heaven is church, Earth is the club, and Hell is the after party where he really lets out his inner freak.

Hey guys, can you help me fix PC? It's going like Brrrrr-ratatatata-brrrrr

>>25198
Fan scraping something probably a wire. Either that or if you have a mechanical hard drive. Other than that nothing in the computer moves or makes noises.

>>25197
Don't worry, he don't bite

>>25198
>It's going like Brrrrr-ratatatata-brrrrr

It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon…for twelve seconds

>>25198
>Brrrrr-ratatatata-brrrrr
New Korn album just dropped.

>>25198
It usually stops while it is turned it off. Try keeping it like that.

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Google is down??

I just want to take a moment to complain how fucking bad search engines have become, it's almost impressive, it's borderline useless now


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