#search-engine — Public Fediverse posts

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

https://hister.org/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351802

#HackerNews #Hister #PrivateSearch #ControlIndex #FullContent #SearchEngine

#Firefox Announces Free #VPN and 'Startpage' #SearchEngine Rolling Out to #Android , #iOS - Plus #GeForce NOW Support https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/22/0220219/firefox-announces-free-vpn-and-startpage-search-engine-rolling-out-to-android-ios---plus-geforce-now-support?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154

#HackerNews #Kagi #paywall #search #results #setting #searchengine #privacy #technews

🦊 Firefox 154 integrează motorul de căutare european Startpage!

Mozilla a lansat oficial versiunea Firefox 154, aducând o schimbare importantă pentru utilizatorii din Europa: motorul de căutare axat pe confidențialitate Startpage este acum integrat nativ ca opțiune predefinită în meniul de căutare din setările browserului.

✨ Detaliile integrării Startpage în Firefox 154:

🇪🇺 Disponibilitate regională inițială:
• Integrarea nativă pe desktop este activată direct pentru utilizatorii din 5 țări europene cheie: Germania, Franța, Austria, Elveția și Olanda. Versiunile pentru Android și iOS vor urma în curând.

🔍 Rezultate de calitate, Zero AI & Zero Profilare:
• Startpage oferă rezultate de calitate (bazate pe indexul Google), dar acționează ca un scut de confidențialitate: elimină adresa IP, nu stochează date, nu creează profiluri de publicitate și oferă o experiență 100% fără răspunsuri generate de inteligență artificială.

🚀 Alegere simplificată pentru utilizatori:
• Deși utilizatorii Firefox efectuau deja peste un miliard de căutări pe Startpage anual prin extensii terțe sau setări manuale, noua integrare elimină complet aceste configurații complexe — fiind acum accesibil prin un singur click din meniul derulant al setărilor de căutare.

🔒 Continuarea strategiei Mozilla pe confidențialitate:
• Schimbarea nu afectează motorul de căutare deja setat de utilizator, ci extinde opțiunile de confidențialitate într-un moment în care utilizatorii caută alternative private și fără rezumate AI la marile motoare de căutare tradiționale.

O victorie excelentă pentru proiectele europene de confidențialitate și un pas înainte pentru libertatea de alegere în cadrul browserului! 🚀

#Firefox #Firefox154 #Mozilla #Startpage #Privacy #SearchEngine #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxNews #TechNews #FOSS

Do you know how I can integrate the #peertube #searchengine https://sepiasearch.org/ in the results of a #yacy instance ?

#Business #Announcements
Startpage comes to Firefox · The privacy-first European search engine lands in Firefox https://ilo.im/16ffid

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#Firefox #Browser #Startpage #SearchEngine #Europe #Privacy #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDev

Explaining Bytespider: Bytespider is ByteDance's web crawler, gathering page content for Toutiao search and AI model training. It is among the most blocked and disputed bots online. https://ppc.land/bytespider/ #Bytespider #ByteDance #WebCrawler #AI #SearchEngine

#retrocomputing #frogfind #searchengine #unix #retawq

👻 Another Ghost in the Logs: When a UNIX Classic Says Hello

Usually, a morning logfile analysis is just a noisy stream of AI scrapers, script kiddies, and SEO bots. But this week, FrogFind’s logs caught a true retro artifact: retawq/0.2.6c [en] (text). 🎣

Seeing a terminal-based browser from 2004 bravely navigating the web of 2026 demands absolute respect!

🕰️ What exactly is retawq?
When we think of text browsers, we usually think of Lynx or w3m. But retawq is a highly optimized, multi-threaded text-mode browser from the early 2000s (this specific version dropped in 2004). Built in C for POSIX systems, it relies purely on curses/ncurses for terminal output. No JavaScript, no bloated CSS, no trackers—just blazing-fast, pure text. 💻

🐸 The FrogFind Magic
If this classic browser hit a modern website today, it would instantly choke on megabytes of React and Angular scripts. This is where FrogFind steps in as the perfect translator.

FrogFind strips away the modern bloat and serves pure, lightweight HTML. For retawq, this is a feast: it perfectly renders ASCII tables, keeps links keyboard-navigable, and delivers a flawless text flow. ⚡

🎯 Mission Accomplished
Log entries like this are the ultimate proof of why we do this. Somewhere out there, someone is sitting at a classic UNIX box, a vintage Linux setup, or an old SPARC workstation, reading the daily news in a terminal window.

No cookie popups. No flashing ads. Just pure information, exactly how the web was meant to be. This is why we keep the retro web alive! 🚀

I'd say it is now a misnomer to say we have the world's information at our fingertips.

There's a lot more information besides Wikipedia out there, but its harder to find now as search has been changed.

Thankfully, there are some search projects here on Mastodon that are worth looking into that I discovered from @RGBes :

1. @prieco
2. @marginalia
3. @pears

#search #searchengine #searchengines #tech #technology #web

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/117088472622625782

👋 #DIDiT & #DanmarkSkifter Community

> #Dugnad is a Norwegian gem of a word and tradition. It's about coming together when a task feels too big to do alone.

✅️ Switch your #browser.
✅️ Switch your #SearchEngine.
✅️ Move your #email.
✅️ Change where you store your files. #Cloud

cc @protonprivacy @DanmarkSkifter @switchingsoftware

#DutGemacht #2MR #DigitalSovereignty

I Built a 500k-Domain Search Engine for Makers in a Weekend for $10

https://alexmorleyfinch.github.io/marlin/history/v1/article/the_birth.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285718

#HackerNews #500kDomains #SearchEngine #Makers #Weekend #Project10Dollar

#Business #Analyses
The end of Google Search as we know it · “Google’s success is now kind of your problem.“ https://ilo.im/16f88d

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#Google #SearchEngine #AiSearch #AI #SEO #Publishing #Blogs #Websites #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

FYI: Brave Search gains a spot on Chrome's engine list at 2.46 billion queries: Browser hit 122.55 million monthly users in July, up 1.3% on June, with 51 million daily. Whether a listing shifts a browser holding 1% of traffic is untested. https://ppc.land/brave-search-gains-a-spot-on-chromes-engine-list-at-2-46-billion-queries/ #BraveSearch #Chrome #WebBrowser #DigitalMarketing #SearchEngine

RT @glenngabe: Gestern habe ich einen Test mit Googles 'goto'-Links durchgeführt. Google leitet den ersten Klick über eine Affiliate-ähnliche Weiterleitung an die eigentliche Seite weiter. @rustybrick hat dies vor einigen Wochen bereits behandelt. Ich würde gerne wissen, was sie durch diese Art der Klickverfolgung analysieren... :) Weitere Informationen findet ihr in Barry's Beitrag dazu: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-com-goto-as-tracking-urls-41647.html

mehr auf Arint.info

#Affiliate #DigitalMarketing #Google #SearchEngine #SEO #Tracking #arint_info

https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2085711477680337266#m

#Business #Findings
Zero click searches at an all-time high · “More people than ever stay in Google’s ecosystem.” https://ilo.im/16f0z2

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#Google #SearchEngine #ZeroClick #SEO #AI #Content #Websites #OpenWeb

So, I am thinking about this.

There's nothing really stopping a federated version of search utilizing various methods, some abandoned, some new, through a federated search engine that offers different flavors.

A simple thing like uploading and sharing bookmarks.

Being self sustaining is a challenge... throwing this out to the fediverse with the thought, "out of one search, many"

Might be a good, federated, community thing.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/

#fediverse #searchengine

@arstechnica

...That diversity is worth remembering because it shows that search was never necessarily destined to look the way it does now. The pre-Google engines weren’t just failed precursors. They were serious attempts to address a problem that the web had made urgent but not yet solvable in one obvious way. Google won by combining technical rank, usability, and scale at exactly the moment the rest of the Internet was ready to abandon the old order....

Maybe if...

#Internet #searchengine

ICYMI: Brave Search gains a spot on Chrome's engine list at 2.46 billion queries: Browser hit 122.55 million monthly users in July, up 1.3% on June, with 51 million daily. Whether a listing shifts a browser holding 1% of traffic is untested. https://ppc.land/brave-search-gains-a-spot-on-chromes-engine-list-at-2-46-billion-queries/ #BraveSearch #Chrome #WebBrowsers #SearchEngine #DigitalMarketing