hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 6 months agoBing outage shows just how little competition Google search really hasarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1203arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarehedge@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·6 months agoSeems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think…
minus-squarebrie@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up22·6 months agoAlexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.
minus-squareFubarberry@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 months agoBrave does have an option to use anonymous Google results as a fallback if their index doesn’t return enough results, but it will ask you before it does it.
minus-squarereadbeanicecream@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoNice! Mojeek looks great. Thanks for the tip!
minus-squaredoxxx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoKagi.com has its own I believe. But you have to pay a subscription to use it.
minus-squareMindless_Enigma@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoMy understanding is that Kagi relies on the likes of Bing and Google but since it uses more than one of them it can keep functioning if one goes down.
minus-squaredoxxx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoTIL. I thought they had their own crawler. I’m a little disappointed.
minus-squaredarreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoThey do both, their own index focuses on the “small web”, more info here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
Seems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think…
Alexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.
Brave does have an option to use anonymous Google results as a fallback if their index doesn’t return enough results, but it will ask you before it does it.
Nice! Mojeek looks great. Thanks for the tip!
Kagi.com has its own I believe. But you have to pay a subscription to use it.
My understanding is that Kagi relies on the likes of Bing and Google but since it uses more than one of them it can keep functioning if one goes down.
TIL. I thought they had their own crawler. I’m a little disappointed.
They do both, their own index focuses on the “small web”, more info here:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html