I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don’t like the idea of AI giving me “facts” since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    So what about open source self hosted search engines? If it requires some hardware I’d gladly team up with a small group of people to finance a bigass server that just gets us our personal search engine

    Any good ones out there?

      • Hawk@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Perplexica is interesting too, but it uses a moderate amount of ram because of elastic search.

        And of course you need to have ollama running