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Can we create a new Internet ?
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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Seems like all we need is a search engine that only returns sites that don't shove unwanted content down your throat. Tall order though.
I host my own searx instance and use that to search, it supports all of DDG's bangs by default if you begin a query with a double bang !!
Not advocating for Google here, but you can do that with "site: wikipedia.org" as a search operator in Google.
DDG's bangs actually use the site's own search feature though, rather than narrowing the search engine's results to a given site.
And, less typing. That's a plus for me.
desire to know more intensifies
Bangs are awesome, and so are the Vim keybinds
Kagi has a "small web" search option, as well as an RSS feed and bare-bones front-end. https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
Kagi has been amazing for me so far. I signed up as soon as they changed the pricing to allow unlimited searches at $10/mo.
I'm still working on my filters and promoting/demoting/pinning sites in my results, but it's already night-and-day better than Google and even DuckDuckGo (which still deserves much respect).
Looks promising if you're on a Mac/iOS setup, but I'm on Fedora Linux, so sadly they don't offer an option for that. If they ever offered Linux support in the future, I'd definitely give Kagi a try.
People aren't putting content much on the open web as they used to as well. Think the high point was when blogs were a thing, the second high point was during the Geocities et all free webspace peroid.