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   Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🌸 (flockofcats@famichiki.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 15:55:46 JST Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🌸

   I just did a quick comparison of how search results looks on Google, DuckDuckGo, and self-hosted SearXNG

   #selfhosting #searxng

   First Google: 🤮 three screenshots and few actual search results

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     Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🌸 (flockofcats@famichiki.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 15:55:46 JST Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🌸

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     Next DDG: better, though a bit of stuff added at the top and other random stuff, but shows a good amount of actual results

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     Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🌸 (flockofcats@famichiki.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 15:55:46 JST Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🌸

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     Self-hosted SearXNG: 👍 I like it for simplicity….it is mostly just the same search results that Google buries under ads and slop. Which is not surprising since it includes Google, DDG, etc. in its meta-search.

     I’d prefer to shrink the meta info on top (eg, response time), which I can probably do since I’m hosting it. Also, it shares less info with Google, DDG, etc. since it just uses their search APIs

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 15:55:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     @FlockOfCats I’m rather enjoying Kagi (paying for it) with the Orion browser for general browsing.