I have used SearXNG for a while, but I switched to LibreX after the search engine started glitching. Recently, though, LibreX has stopped returning any results. I am currently on Mojeek, but the results aren’t that great.

I have also tried Qwant, but I wasn’t too keen on it. Startpage will be impractical, as I use a VPN and this engine often blocks me because of it. I don’t want to use Brave Search for a number of reasons. MetaGer has too many important features behind its paywall. I’m not sure about DuckDuckGo, but I could use it if there was no other option.

Any suggestions, or am I being too picky?

    • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      We want search engines. GPT-3.5 has a knowledge cutoff in 2021, so I only really use it for software recommendations and text/code formatting.

      • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
        2·
        11 months ago

        I am surprised that we wouldn’t prefer better AI.

        Search engines today are geared to point us to a site where we then search again for our answer.

        I am now just realizing I’d rather get a range of answers.

        I wonder if that’s where we end up, a massive “wikipedia” of online nuggets of varying degrees of preferential truthiness….

      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 months ago

        Edge has integrated source citing for gpt4. It’s really nice for not keeping open a ton of tabs but logging them all in one place when researching something.