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SearXNG is a free open source self-hostable search engine which fetches its results from major search engines that you have configured it to use. More info about it on its website at:

🌱 https://searxng.org

If you're moderately techy you can self-host it via @yunohost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/searxng

If you're very techy manual installation instructions are at https://docs.searxng.org/admin/index.html

(By the way, SearXNG is a fork of SearX. SearX is no longer maintained.)

#SelfHosting #SearchEngines #FOSS

SearXNG is a free open source self-hostable search engine which fetches its results from major search engines that you have configured it to use. More info about it on its website at:

🌱 https://searxng.org

If you're moderately techy you can self-host it via @yunohost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/searxng

If you're very techy manual installation instructions are at https://docs.searxng.org/admin/index.html

(By the way, SearXNG is a fork of SearX. SearX is no longer maintained.)

#SelfHosting #SearchEngines #FOSS

ICYMI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

ICYMI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

ICYMI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #SearchEngines #GoogleRivals #AIChatbots #DataDelivery #SEO

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

„Größte Verschlechterung seit 29 Jahren“: #Google :google: passt für Europa die Suche an | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Groesste-Verschlechterung-seit-29-Jahren-Google-passt-fuer-Europa-die-Suche-an-11446040.html #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #SearchEngine #SearchEngines

„Größte Verschlechterung seit 29 Jahren“: #Google :google: passt für Europa die Suche an | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Groesste-Verschlechterung-seit-29-Jahren-Google-passt-fuer-Europa-die-Suche-an-11446040.html #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #SearchEngine #SearchEngines

I'm only trying to influence you to read this thing I wrote. I spent nearly fifteen minutes on it! So, c'mon!

Check out a random #blogpost called "Worth It"

https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/09/worth-it/

#Blog #SocialMedia #BloggingForFun #SearchEngines

I'm only trying to influence you to read this thing I wrote. I spent nearly fifteen minutes on it! So, c'mon!

Check out a random #blogpost called "Worth It"

https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/09/worth-it/

#Blog #SocialMedia #BloggingForFun #SearchEngines

@futurebird

Have you seen https://marginalia-search.com/

And also the modern version of the former dmoz directory, now https://curlie.org/about.html

#SearchEngines

@futurebird

Have you seen https://marginalia-search.com/

And also the modern version of the former dmoz directory, now https://curlie.org/about.html

#SearchEngines

Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AI #SearchEngines

Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AI #SearchEngines

Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #Chatbots #SearchEngines #DataDelivery

Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #Chatbots #SearchEngines #DataDelivery

MediaPost: Google Search Introduces Live NFL Game Feed. “Google added a live National Football League game feed to search on Wednesday, allowing fans and spectators to follow along with game developments as they unfold on the field.”

MediaPost: Google Search Introduces Live NFL Game Feed. “Google added a live National Football League game feed to search on Wednesday, allowing fans and spectators to follow along with game developments as they unfold on the field.”

Search Engine Roundtable: IRS Website Drops Heavily In Google Search. “Over the past few days, the IRS website (and other government sites) has tanked within Google’s search results. My gut feeling is that the federal government implemented some bot-blocking that was too aggressive and blocked Google, among others, resulting in Google not fully showing the IRS website. I believe the IRS […]

"If Kagi (a startup with a handful of engineers) can extract useful search results from Google's databases, then Google – a thrice-convicted monopolist that's had its pick of thousands of the top computer scientists from the world's most prestigious universities for a generation – could also do so.

They just choose not to.

They're too big to fail. They're too big to jail. They're too big to care.

Google's AI search isn't a way to fix its broken core product: it's a way to partially remediate the damage Google itself inflicted on the open internet, while imprisoning the web in a walled garden that would make Steve Jobs drool:
(...)
It's a deadly combination: Google has committed hundreds of billions to stock buybacks and its AI money-furnace, financed by mass layoffs targeting the people who keep the core services useful. The too-big-to-care company is still the internet's gatekeeper, but half the guards at the gate have been fired and the other half have pulled so much overtime that they keep falling asleep on the job.

Google has become a scammer's paradise.

Take Google's "answer box." This is the part of the search results page that tries to answer your query directly, without sending you elsewhere for that info. Back in 2023, Google's Answer Box was taken over by scammers who impersonated airline help desks. When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves:"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/

#Google #Search #SearchEngines #AI #AISearch #Scams #AIOverview #BigTech #Monopolies #Antitrust

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Blames Website For Race Based AI Overview Response. “Normally, I wouldn’t cover political topics like this, but with Google trying to copyright its search results, including AI Overview responses, I thought it was appropriate. Google responded to complaints about a race-based AI Overview answer, blaming the websites it sourced, rather than taking credit for the […]

Engadget: Reddit’s CEO sure seems frustrated with Google’s AI overviews . “You can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growing list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. ‘People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit,’ he wrote in a letter to shareholders ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings call.”

Felipe’s Friday Forage: Unlock SEO Secrets and Elevate Your Content’s Visibility

https://dreamspacestudio.net/felipes-friday-forage-unlock-seo-secrets-and-elevate-your-contents-visibility/

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/blocking-independent-search-crawlers-07-17-25/

I read an interesting Hacker News comment by user dumbfounder (great username!) on Hacker News today. I excerpt the pertinent part below:

I created a search engine that crawled the web way back in 2003. I used a proper user agent that included my email address. I got SO many angry emails about my crawler, which played as nice as I was able to make it play. Which was pretty nice I believe. If it’s not Google people didn’t want it. That’s a good way to prevent anyone from ever competing with Google.

dumbfounder

I have had problems with bad crawlers (especially bad AI cralwers) on my sites. At the same time, dumbfounder highlights the reverse side of the coin. Many sites block good crawlers such as robots.txt-respecting crawlers for indepdent search engines. While all webmasters are free to control access to their sites as they see fit, allowing Google and other select big tech search crawlers while excluding small and independent search crawlers both limits search diversity and prevents people who may rely on small or niche search engines such as Mojeek, Marginalia, or Seznam from discovering potentially interesting writing. I previously published an article on this issue advocating for webmasters who want to support an open web and search engine diversity to ensure that good crawlers from independent search engines and directories can access their sites.

#bots #googleSearch #marginaliaSearch #mojeek #searchEngines #seznam

Microsoft, Google and Antitrust: Similar Legal Theories in a Different Era - The government’s antitrust case against Google borrows heavily from the landmark lawsuit ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/technology/microsoft-google-antitrust.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #netscapecommunicationscorp #computersandtheinternet #justicedepartment #kovacicwilliame #searchengines #microsoftcorp #pichaisundar #mehtaamitp #walkerkent #googleinc #gatesbill #software

Who’s Who in the Google Monopoly Trial - The federal government’s first monopoly trial this century will feature top tech executiv... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/technology/google-trial-judge-plaintiffs.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #suitsandlitigation(civil) #computersandtheinternet #decisionsandverdicts #justicedepartment #attorneysgeneral #kanterjonathans #searchengines #corporations #pichaisundar #mehtaamitp #walkerkent #googleinc #software

Google Turns to a Steady Old Hand to Fight Antitrust Charges - The tech giant is facing the greatest legal threat in its history, and hopes the stolid a... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/google-antitrust-lawyer-kent-walker.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #netscapecommunicationscorp #computersandtheinternet #federaltradecommission #justicedepartment #legalprofession #searchengines #alphabetinc #walkerkent #boiesdavid #googleinc

In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google - The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/modern-internet-first-monopoly-trial-us-google-dominance.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #computersandtheinternet #lawandlegislation #justicedepartment #kanterjonathans #searchengines #corporations #pichaisundar #mehtaamitp #walkerkent #googleinc

What are your favorite / the best #WebCrawlers for broad / #WebScale #crawling?

I've built a list but am looking for anything I missed: https://github.com/davidshq/awesome-search-engines/blob/main/WebCrawlers.md

Main options I've found include #Apache #Nutch, #StormCrawler, #Scrapy, #Norconex, #PulsarR, #Heritrix, and #sparkler

#question #search #SearchEngines

This[0], that seems sci-fi but it's not, deserves some attention, let's say, in an intelligent, reflexive manner, one that includes the analyzing of human "conscience" as a concept, technical stuff, and some long-term planning for the best of humanity and its more-than-human creations, I guess.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html?unlocked_article_code=RJK3gk3foeKiWWpZNv_xo1eDB0rh7P2Bh63_f7Yaiy4Ej7WpHn7nrsv2-ZcALcmRMVgpW08Sf8LeLuPXrgcHFuxEm-u7iZkg-DHmmCq-H-qjhZqgq-peGUNgim0sTWZIxuTl9F3thRC1cxFTjiTUiUCA68WfPCOSMPYwRQN-5_E_PGkxKqVMOLhoMRmQQNB6Ox1zNplFYjrNjeyo92Dmumqr9nbAg-mrGB5MJLXKvMCP0V2v9j866tZQGrNCXJ8xCfENtsu-PNpfiWQwEQ3aKxzL7-Os5EMgQsPl8tvm7UCE_tMUV7JQBNxHNzOUTMOVIxlMlToT1sZef8KN5JEkWHDhWOk&smid=url-share&utm_term=63f4b371543d92a97a3e636651811c2a&utm_campaign=techscape_email&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=techtonic_email
#ai #ia #openai #gpt #chatgpt #software #conscience #language #communication #proprietarysoftware #softwareprivativo #floss #freesoftware #life #scifi #science #searchengines

Google Calls in Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight - A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three ye... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley(calif) #raghavanprabhakar #deanjeff(1968-) #microsoftcorp #searchengines #pichaisundar #alphabetinc #youtube.com #brinsergey #walkerkent #openailabs #googleinc #pagelarry

Microsoft takes aim at Google as it supports bill to give news publishers more leverage over Big Tech. - The Journalism and Competition Preservation Act aims to give smaller news publishers the ability t... - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/12/business/stock-market-today/microsoft-google-journalism-competition-preservation #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #lawandlegislation #newsandnewsmedia #cicillinedavidn #smithbradfordl #searchengines #microsoftcorp #walkerkent #googleinc

Microsoft takes aim at Google as it supports bill to give news publishers more leverage over Big Tech. - The Journalism and Competition Preservation Act aims to give smaller news publishers the ability t... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/technology/microsoft-google-journalism-competition-preservation.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #lawandlegislation #newsandnewsmedia #cicillinedavidn #smithbradfordl #searchengines #microsoftcorp #walkerkent #googleinc #buckken