Ran across this site in my web server logs (referrer), seems fairly simple search (aggregated) and still being built, it was down for a bit then back up, etc.,.

I’m trying to research niche products and independent sellers and I’m tired of receiving endless Amazon, Etsy, Walmart type of results.

Other than Google dorking and using specific search queries, what tools or techniques could I use to get low traffic websites, independent sellers, personal blogs, etc.

If I was on a webpage and clicked "back" until I got to the Google search page, would what appeared in the search box be what I specifically typed in, or could it be auto populated somehow?

i have a widget that laods on peaples websites, i noticed that some of my customers face an issue:
when yoou search their website name< it will show the website with google search snippets that contain my widgets texts(instead of the website texts or descriptions)

my customer is very unhappy, i searched and found that i should put the data-nosnippet on my widgets container so it wont appear in search results and crawlers ignore the texts inside it,

but i still have a problem, his search result are still showing my widgets texts instead of his website although he deleted my widget from website(it seems that it can take some time before google recrawls the website)

how can i fasten this proccess and make his website search results like before? i dont have access to his search console

also is there any way to test if my new update on widget is working or not?

I searched for this exact French sentence on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo: "Au cours de notre dîner de répétition de mariage, il y a maintenant trois ans". To my great surprise, the only search engine that returned a result is Yahoo Search.

However, it was my understanding that Yahoo Search relies on Bing results, but Bing returns nothing with this query. Why is there a difference between the two? It probably does not come from search results customization, as I tried from various browsers in incognito mode, from three different computers, and from various IPs located in different countries.

Subsidiary question: when I search for the sentence "Au cours de notre dîner de répétition de mariage" (which is a shorter version of the previous sentence), now Bing and other search engines like Google return one result. So they all have the page indexed in their system, they just seem to be unable to process a longer sentence, contrary to Yahoo search. Why is that?

(Context explaining why I search for this sentence: as Google search results have become horrendous, I'm benchmarking various search engines on random sentences taken from pages from my Web browsing history).

edit: ironically, now Google returns this very page in its results, but still does not return the original page where the exact sentence appears.

I'm annoyed that the AI Summary Garbage has taken over so much of many of the search engines, and I was wondering if there were any good search engines that would still offer those quick lookup features that give like a real quote from a relavent article, or automatically populates something like a movie's cast from imdb, etc

I’ve been wondering if there’s any app or tool that actually lets you search your own picture and personal info online. I’m mainly curious because I want to know if my photos are being reused for fake or scam accounts on social media. Google Image Search feels very limited and often misses social platforms entirely. Has anyone found a tool that actually works for this, without being sketchy or inaccurate?

The site interface was designed basically what we expect out of modern day AI. You ask it a question, it gives you answers and breaks them into categories, all behind the respectable appearance of a butler. The issue was it operated like an inferior version of Google and completely fell off like every other non-Google search engine did at the time. Today every big corporation seems to be going all in on AI and offering the kind of interface Ask Jeeves did but with AI responses that can actually address the question, to varying degrees of success. It seems a no brainer to bring back this old brand and attempt to get a piece of the future AI marketshare by appealing to us boomers who remember it existed.

I was trying to find the earliest date of a VERY famous photograph yet TinEye kept saying 0 results despite there probably being tens of thousands. Turns out TinEye protects all copyright images, and so im guessing that image is somehow copyrighted thus wont come up. Any alternatives?

I have trued a few privacy first search engines like ddg Qwant startpadge and mojeek and personally I think ddg is the most google like at the mo I know startpadge uses google results buy ddg feels more like google and Qwant has a nice feel to it like a more cut down google a pre ai google but mojeek it I think it’s more of a wired one it dose not feel like any others search engine it is one on its own

I would like it here’s opinions on these search engine

I don't know much about search engines available but I want a search engine which is privacy focused, unbiased, and fully uncensored. Is there any available????

Hello, I’m setting up a new divise for the first time and want to use the best stuff. ive been doing so much reasurch that I’ve got a bit turned around and don’t know what to believe anymore.
I just want something that doesn’t use Ai and won’t gather info and track me. Sorry if a post like this is already up, any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏼

Hi all,

I´ve been using Ecosia for a long time, but around once a week I'll have to sign in again. I've checked everything but it keeps happening, unlike other search engines and pages. It happens in mobile and desktop (on Firefox and Brave).

I really want to keep using it, but I'm considering changing because of this.

if I perform a search on DuckDuckGo, then I want to do another search, the browser refuses to let me delete the search Field's contents.

This is frustrating, how can I fix this? happening on my Linux computers and my phone.

Hi , I wanna know if there are really good only fans searcher , like I can choose many tags ( ebony , thicc , small , goth ,milf , fake , bimbo ) and have a good display of model .

Because when sometime I search for chubby , I found thin girl , or if I search for Asian, I found latina (you see the little problem).

And which content they are doing ( more anal , squirter , etc ).

Would like to know if can combine helping ecology with having slightly more privacy than using google or maybe I should stay with duckduckgo

I found this a couple weeks ago and after reaching out to the dev I actually got to test it for a bit. Basically, it's an IR system that indexes all the files on your PC and then you can search for key terms and stuff like that (like a search engine but for your files). The good thing is that it doesn't just search file names but the actual content. I think it's more for companies but definitely recommend checking it out.
(Dev said he's happy to let people test it for feedback)

Not sure if this is the right subreddit for this, but if not, please suggest other places to post this.

Anyway, something strange happened.

Lenso.ai and Pimeyes both stopped working for me simultaneously.

Lenso.ai keeps returning a Captcha error even though I am sure I am identifying the objects correctly.

Pimeyes just won't search. On mobile when I click the search bar it doesn't do anything. On my laptop when I try to click the search bar, the red circle with the diagonal crossbar prohibited 🚫 icon appears.

What is going on here? I wasn't doing anything crazy or nefarious. But they both just stopped working all of a sudden. Is this just a coincidence or is something else happening? Any suggestions?

I wanna find someone, I don't know the name, I have multiple photos!!

So can anyone help me tell any reverse image search engine!!!

Please which are best , free of use or even if paid then it's cheap

Hey all,

I’m working on a project called Helixis.

My current plan: • I forked the Rebel browser and rebranded it (Chromium-based). • I want to add an AI copilot sidebar. • On top of that, I’d like to build a small, opinionated “Helixis Search Engine” instead of just using Google/Bing.

I’m not trying to build a Google competitor — more like a focused search layer that works well with the browser + copilot.

I’m looking for someone who has actually built search / indexing / infra before and would be open to: • A short DM or call • Walking me through the main tradeoffs (meta-search vs own index, costs, scaling basics, etc.) • Helping me avoid dumb mistakes early

What eco-friendly search engine has the best privacy or should I give up and just go to DuckDuckGo? I've been using Ecosia and am frankly disgusted by them implementing AI as a search engine that claims to want to help the enviroment. I've looked at Search for Trees and Ekoru, but I'm still pretty unsure.

And I’m not talking about “does it completely conceal all my personal data 100%,” I already know it doesn’t do that. Like from a security stand point, am I in any significant way more vulnerable using the qwant default search extension for firefox and safari. Ios gave me a scary looking warning about how it can see what I type into safari when I enabled said extension. I’m 99% sure this just apple being big brother, but I want to see if anyone else had any trouble before I go shopping with this thing in my browsers or whatever.

I believe that most search engines, including kagi, use Google's webcrawler, and then use their own algorithm to pick and display results. This seems to have two problems: (1) Google is heavily censored and (2) many results are ads or AI slop that are optimized to have high ranks.

It seems like it would be possible to make a webcrawler and only do the legal minimum censorship, but I wonder if this would even accomplish anything with all of the AI slop. Is the age of being able to find information dying out forever?

Hey y’all

Need some help with this, hope you can give me some tips— where do people usually find experienced Search folks? LinkedIn hasn’t been really helpful.

For context we’re a Latam startup, working on a B2B marketplace with a pretty big catalog, and our search works… just okay; but we really need to improve it. We already have some people who put some work on it — but we need someone with stronger Search experience to take set us in the right direction.

Any useful tip, on where could I connect with such people would be really appreciated.

Dear community,

Hello, I have been interested in the concept of metasearch engines lately, and was wondering what might be the best one to try. I wanted to see what the majority of people on this subreddit might think. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Grayson W.

Or is reverse image search, as a concept, a thing of the past? Google Image search used to be great, but now all I get are product results. TinEye was also pretty good, but now I rarely get any results back. I just want a way to find the highest quality version of an image.

I am sick and tired of bloated web pages and having to deal with godawful generative AI shoving bs into my face whenever I use google so I want to find some search engine that is plain and simple and just gives me search results instead of showing me 5000 pop ups and an essay written by a computer telling me that 2000°C is perfect for a fish tank. Does anyone know of any good search engines like this?

Saw video on how slanted Google results are. Thought id try something new

I've been having a hard time trying to use search engines to find anything, usually getting a bunch of vague or incorrect results. They used to work a lot better in the past and it's really frustrating me his useless they have become for finding anything. Are there any search engines that are actually good for in-depth research, since it seems like Google and many other options seem to be pretty useless these days? It's be nice if it could be one that's good for privacy, too.

I'm an Apple user, I've got an Iphone, Ipad and Mac. I used to use Safari, but last year I started using Chrome instead. I want to know which one is better in terms of security.

It started out small but the index has now grown to a pretty significant size. Thought this might interest some of you:

I really starting to think in who algorithms and corps are killing our experience of internet, I don't just want to find the mainstrem 10 webcites that we use every day, I really want to surf the web, scape from mainstream found freak webcites find alternatives ways of think.

I made a web tool that aims to uncover the real web.

The project I'm working on now has a beta to search results from its own independent search index that is working to be differentiated and favor small web, human-created results.

I need help with some initial feedback and habits. If you were to deep dive on a topic, what results on the the web would be differentiated enough to make you say, "Ooh, interesting," and actually discover new human-made content like the old days?

If you'd like, you can  right now and respond with what your experience was. It's still in beta but any experience is helpful!

A search engine that doesn't prioritize things. When looking for a search engine that doesn't just give me the same results, no predictive algorithm or learning to suggest certain things, all I found were other search engines that prioritized smaller sites instead of popular sites.

That's not what I'm looking for. I wanted to know if the kind of search engine that searches purely off what you type even exists anymore?

Okay, technically I know they do in some places. Like the Wayback Machine. It doesn't have an algorithm at all. You just type something and it provides based off that. But the Wayback Machine is an archive, not necessarily a daily use search engine to surf the entirety of the Internet. Just what's been archived of it.

So does anyone know of one that exists?

The title says it all....OnlySearch.co started as a random hackathon project back in September 2020. It was Covid, so everyone was locked inside and OnlyFans was blowing up. Creators were flocking to the platform, but there was one huge problem: nobody could get discovered. There was no search feed on the actual platform, no discovery page, nothing. Everyone I talked to said the same thing: finding new subscribers was brutal and they spent more time marketing themselves than making new content.

Fans felt it too. They wanted a better way to find creators they actually liked, but the platform made it impossible. They wanted to be able to search by specific traits like location or content niche. By the end of the hackathon weekend we had a rough but working search engine that could index OnlyFans profiles. We didn’t win the hackathon, but we kept going because it clearly solved a real problem.

A few weeks later, we dropped it on Product Hunt and it took off. Traffic spiked, creators started getting clicks, and before long OnlySearch became the top ranked OnlyFans search engine on Google, a spot it has held ever since. For years, it quietly ran without ads or monetization, and we nearly forgot about it. That is, until my other product, Sunroom was acquired. Now I'm turning my focus to OnlySearch and launching paid ads. In just a couple months we've already garnered a long waiting list of creator agencies eager to advertise on OS.

OnlySearch has always been about making discovery actually work for creators. It’s still growing, still independent, and still run by people who genuinely get it. Stay tuned for what’s next.

I'm looking for a search engine that is good as a widget with my I'm launcher. I'm using lynx launcher and want a better widget than Google search

It's clear here, in this example from a normal google tab, that these results under my search are based on my past searches on this site.

But I've also seen these pop up in Incognito, tailored to searches that I did in a previous Incognito mode tab. Sometimes when I'm trying to switch to a version where I'm not signed into google or the site in question; for example when I can't be bothered to sign out, but I want to see how the not-signed-in version looks; I'll switch over and use google, and I've noticed this happen. Specific keywords keep cropping up that I'm sure I've only searched in these cases.

How does it retain that info and come up with these results when it's in Incognito? I thought cookies and search result history wasn't retained in Incognito?

Recently I've noticed that several websites indexed by Google are broken. If I search for something, I can get the results from Google search, but the domain names of such websites are never on the first line of the Google search. For example, I search for "handwiki.org" (hoping to find this website), but the first page always gives some random pages from this website, but not the main page with the domain name. I've seen similar patterns for other domains too.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with a small search engine that aggregates results from multiple open sources to help find content that’s often hard to locate with traditional engines.

It’s still early, and I’d love input from people familiar with search tech. Some questions I have:

• What features are most useful in a niche search engine?

• How would you expect results and filtering to work?

• Any ideas for improving the overall user experience?

I can share a link to a simple demo in the comments for anyone interested.

, one of the most uncensored, private and big index search engines, have been plugged out from the wall, maybe forever.

and that was the last comment made by his creator on github repo.

Very sad so see it gone. Since it got defunded, and suddenly stopped being supported. another massive book burning in this year, and just one of many in the upcoming years.

i was searching an image i found online that was claimed to be a hate symbol but i wanted to verify that, however google refused to give me any results when i asked if the image i provided was affiliated with a "white supremacy group" and even simply a "hate group." Google apparently hasn't read 1984 or just doesn't realize the value and necessity of not locking away information because it could hurt someone's feelings.

i need a new search engine that will not attempt to filter sensitive search results, i need an engine that works like a virtual encyclopedia should, where all of the information in their resources are open and unrestricted to me if i search for them

Hey. Are we cooked? Even DuckDuckGo has introduced an AI feature and every single engine I've tried has removed the advanced search options (-,"", etc). Google still has an advanced search PAGE but it doesn't actually remove words when you put it in the field. What actually good search engine is out there?

I'm picturing something that pulls the same index Google uses, but strips every ad, shopping box, and SEO fluff.

Then show search bar below with "Search follow-up" to do follow-up search

It shows search results for follow-up query below the previous one, forming a thread.

So, if tomorrow a service mashed those two ideas together-Google-grade relevance + vertical-thread readability.

Would you be inclined to try and switch to such a search engine? Why or why not?

So there are a lot of websites coming in for analysing AI visibility or ranking in citations, is understanding the analysis the hard part or fixing the points raised by the reports harder for the same?

Site is 3 months old. GSC: 50k impressions, 227 clicks, CTR 0.5, avg position 39. Is this healthy for a new local site?

Not sure if it’s just ramping up or if it’ll stay like this for a while. Trying to figure out how stable it might be going forward

I've used DDG for a few years with no problem, but lately its's gotten slower and slower and turned into a memory hog causing lockups... Today it locked up 3 times in 10 minutes and that was enough... I deleted it. Any suggestions for a better browser? Thanks in advance.

It's so annoying because they are scamming me with some unrelated videos ranging from music, nursery rhymes and more! Is there any image search that doesn't include any videos on it?

I've been using Edge ever since I got my ASUS vivobook about 2-ish years ago and it's been fine, but I was wondering if there are any better ones? I've been looking at Firefox but ... Idk! I'm not tech savvy at all. I'm just a college student

I created a search for our masters at Alphabet and Bing. The search was: how to tell a man to leave off while civility remains.

Bing AI: Useful information about empathy

Google AI: Treated the question as a homosexual divorce

In June 2016, Instagram changed their API in a way that restricted access to third-party search engines and web viewers.

This was bad because back then, Instagram's built-in searching capabilities were severely limited. You could only search user names and single hash tags, but not more advanced things like descriptions, multiple hashtags, and date ranges. I don't know if they added it by now because I haven't used Instagram for several years.

Third-party tools like Hashtag Pirate had searching capabilities well beyond Instagram's built-in searching tool. From what I remember, Hashtag Pirate allowed filtering by type (photo or video) and date range, and allowed filtering by multiple hashtags. There was also a search engine which could search descriptions but I don't remember its name.

Third-party viewers like Websta.me, Enjoygram (later renamed to Pikore), InstaGravity, Instaliga (the few I remember), Gramfeed, Mixagram (mentioned in Mac Rumors article) also were usually more lightweight than Instagram's own website, therefore working more smoothly on older devices. Instagram's own website always relied on heavy JavaScript and consumed lots of memory.

Some also showed details about a post that were not shown by the Instagram website, like the exact date a post was uploaded. Instagram itself used to show "weeks ago" only, but they added exact dates in the late 2010s I think.

Third-party viewers also featured different layouts that may be preferrable to Instagram's own web interface. For example, Websta.me had a side-by-side view, meaning it used to show pictures on the left column and description+comments on the right column, and you could change the view ( I found in the archives).

The API was also used by bulk exporting tools like InstaPort.me, which also ceased to work.

I hereby release this post into the public domain under .

Hi everyone, I'm using Edge on both PC and Android, I would like some advice on which search engine is better between Bing and Google. Which one do you use? Do you only use Google or do you have other valid alternatives?

Hi, i have an infinite yellow loading bar when i search for an image, i try it on Firefox, Brave and Edge in normal and safe mode but i have still the same thing. I'm on W11 family edition and all my browsers are updated same for my laptop.

Example screenshot

Can someone help me ?

I believe this person is not who they really are ive tried reverse image sites but come up with nothing, im looking for someone to help please comment on this and ill send you the photos.

Search Engines are nothing but SEO crap. I stopped using and rely on AI.

Google Yahoo Bing Kagi Brave Yandex Ecosia DuckDuckGo Tor Internet Explorer Worldwideweb Firefox

Si vous ne trouvez pas le résultat voulu, vous cliqué sur un bouton et des résultats de recherche parfait aparaissent. J'utilises une api cerebras soit la méthode la plus rapide du monde pour utiliser des ia (Ça va 800 fois plus vite que ChatGPT et ça créé 2000 lignes de code en 1.5 seconde). Vous pouvez l'utiliser au lien . Il est possible que la moitié des résultats dans google ne s'ouvrent pas, c'est à cause de X-Frame Option et ça sera bientôt régler. Vous en pensez quoi ?

Ignoring everything else (yes, everything else), what is the best FREE search engine for results accuracy? Everything I've read and heard online is contradicted by someone else entirely in the comments or elsewhere. I just want a straight answer, which I have been scouring this subreddit for and cannot find. Which SE is the BEST in the criteria of search results accuracy ONLY.

Yes, I know you can manually filter in google, I've been doing it for a long time and I still get an ungodly amount of clutter in my results because I'm not using search engines to get my PhD, I'm using it to just do regular, non-academic, non-business related browsing. I don't need TOR, I don't need more privacy, I don't care about "cool features." I just want to stop having to scroll past AI generated text blocks and then check the top 15 results of every search to find what I'm looking for.

Thank you!

I have two extensions to improve Google search: Google verbatim search (only shows results where each word appears verbatim) and Google search engine with udm=14 preset (gets rid of AI overview). With these two extensions, which is better in terms of search engine accuracy?

What search engine may give me the most information about a person, the catch is that person is in LATAM and most search engines only works for US residents.

I used to feel like I could just ignore ads and unrelated links coming up from google but now I feel like it's just getting ridiculous. Page 1 used to be so informative 😔 When I was a kid I would go down so many rabbit holes because I could find related things to what I wanted to know but now kids are growing up with just a million ads, it's so stupid. I don't want to be someone who is actively hating AI algorithms but stuff like this is so annoying and it's actually a serious problem I fear

planning to switch to a different search engine cause opera gx is eating all my damn ram and my download speed are super slow