google search results are still kind of useful especially for non-english language queries, anyone knows a good alternative?

searxng also doesn’t really seem to work these days…

  • mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Kagi is still $10+tax a month. That’s $120 a year (plus tax).

    SearXNG is $0 and a few minutes of my time whenever I tweak the configuration.

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      If you’re there with Searx then it’s pretty similar to how Kagi works. Kagi sends requests to various search providers and has some of its own index then shows results based on the various sources.

      I found Searx/Searxng slow, 5-6 seconds per query (to get a response from each source), though it seems others have it working faster. Might have been some IP or rate limiting issue.

      Kagi has easy ways to raise/lower rankings and users can report AI slop pages to have them removed, but all in all Searx gives pretty good results.