Web Crawlers Delux

Exalead is passable sometimes.

I feel I only use search engines as if they were quick Q&A sites. I don't really search for anything, I would rather call them 'ask engines'.

Ixquick was good because it collected results from 5 different engines, Startpage now is just a Google proxy, nothing more. I use multiple search engines though. Sometimes Yandex, sometimes a pajeet startup... For example I don't search for service manuals on Google because I know all the results are fakes.

I've shilled it on Holla Forums for a few years (very rarely). Its main advantage for English or north american users is specifically that it indexes less often and doesn't play some specific bullshit games that more popular search engines play.

So if say you were researching a specific person around a trending topic, you can actually get real preexisting results from before they went trending, instead of it being buried underneath ten thousand new related articles with the same "facts", and ten trillion completely unrelated articles that got indexed with that keyword or name because google or whatever decides that every single fucking news article ever is now related because it re-indexed every fucking news article ever 15 minutes ago and the keyword or name you wanted was in the sidebar as a title for another article.

I don't know if that makes sense but if you're trying to do real research on some character after a trending story or just plan dox somebody, exalead can give amazing results.

Let me give a specific example (and this applies to other search engines with low rates of reindexing, but of course they still have to have a halfway decent search algo and wide overall index to be useful)

It's Dec 14 2012. Sandy Hook shooting hit the news like a sledgehammer 6 hours ago. You just got home, you're hearing about an Adam Lanza. You want to see what you can find about him.

You search on Google. You get ten trillion results. The first ten thousand are news articles that all say the same thing just published. The next 9999999990000 are literally every single fucking article on mainstream sites for every fucking topic forever that now include the the words adam lanza because it is in the trending sidebar and got reindexed. So you cannot ever hope to see one way or the other if this guy had a preexisting internet trail.

But on exalead you can know. It's not perfect, maybe exalead didn't index it. Get what I mean though? There are advantages. That's an extreme example but I swear by this

Bing

YaCy for a decentralized p2p crawler / search engine.

t.ecologist

What is wrong with duckduckgo?

Nothing, really. Most will claim it's because Weinberg used to own a datamining company before he created DuckDuckGo, but it's mostly because he's a kike.

They have a silly gimmick that probably isn't even true, but do they actually provide good results?

It's Bing resultsor really, 75% Bing and 25% their own web crawler. I like Bing, and I use it, even if it isn't FOSS like Searx. My one goal is to avoid Google, not all botnet.

this is how search engines should be. what (((google))) and the other big ones do is complete garbage. it's not even a feature what you're describing, it's how search engines are by default until they become (((user friendly)))

yacy.net

Uh, how does a decentralized search engine function if web crawlers centralize them?

Is this a laughing colors joke?

lol

top kek's

post searx instances?

Go to a searx instance. Click about and then you'll find this link:

github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

..and from there you might even want to go here:

stats.searx.oe5tpo.com/

Holy fuck it is. LOL I remember seeing tv ads for lycos wayyyyy back when I was a kid. Like late 90s or something. I never even thought about them since then. Until now.

Talking as a former insider. Do not use Bing. Seriously. You do not want to support that search engine or MS for that matter. But bing is rotten.

What is better than Bing for porn?

Welp

You don't see how that works?

I have a hard time believing that someone who earned his money selling user information suddenly claims he wants to protect people from businesses selling user information. And especially since he sits on a goldmine. No kike would pass up a opportunity to cash that in.

Nudevista my man.

Stop eating my videos codemonkey.

Now he ate my spoiler
Mods please spoiler

startpage I guess

I don't see the problem, unless you live in a police-state.

I have been using startpage.

When I first used it a few years back, it was extremely slow.

I recently went back and its performing at par with other search engines for me.

Set as home/default search on all devices. It uses google crawler just behind a proxy.