#searchengines — Public Fediverse posts

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 SearX is no longer maintained.)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

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

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

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

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.”

Ars Technica: Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink. “As the world’s largest search engine, Google is often a target of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to rein in Big Tech. The European Commission hit Google with a hefty 460 million euro ($543 million) fine in July for preferring its own services in searches for travel and shopping. […]

#NPR and #NewsGuard tested how #AIchatbots and #searchengines handle #falsenarratives spread by #China, #Iran, and #Russia. The experiment found that AI chatbots generally performed better than search engines, debunking false narratives about three-quarters of the time. However, AI summaries at the top of search engine results were less reliable, with varying performance across different products. https://www.npr.org/2026/08/30/nx-s1-5876436/chatbots-search-propaganda?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

Global News: Privacy watchdog takes Google to court over ‘right to be forgotten’ case. “Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog’s recommendations. The privacy commissioner’s office said a year ago that Google wouldn’t implement its recommendation to de-list specific […]

Reuters: Google changes spam policy in EU to avert antitrust fine. “The EU said ​that its monitoring showed that Google’s spam policy demoted news media ​and other publishers’ websites and content in Google search results, when those websites include content from commercial partners. Google said that from August 30 any manual actions ​taken to demote sites would not apply to users in […]

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 […]

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.”

FYIVT: Vermont Just Got Its Own Search Engine — And It Reads the Documents Google Can’t. “The FYIVT Finder currently indexes more than 90,000 documents (and growing as you read this). That includes every Vermont bill dating back to 2010, searchable by subject rather than only by bill number. It includes more than 45,000 legislative committee documents — testimony, amendments, reports and […]

University of Washington: GovScape lets you easily search millions of government documents. “At the end of every presidential term, the End of Term Web Archive preserves that administration’s web presence as a vast trove of documents and webpages. The archive began in 2008, with George W. Bush’s second term, and runs up to 2024, collecting images, text, graphs, redacted pages and other […]

#TIL that longstanding CC image search engine #PixaBay can now be used to search for other kinds of media, including music;

https://pixabay.com/music/

#CC #CCMusic #SearchEngines #CreativeCommons #search

@zoekeating.com

Hey, at least there is a UK based old school search engine now, that respects privacy, and does not use Google's index (like Startpage) or Microsoft's (like DuckDuckGo) at all - https://mojeek.com
Does it give great results all the tjme? Ummm, not quite, but at least it is a nice option to have, that is a "work in progress"

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/09/cloudflare-google-search-monopoly-ai-data-advantage-xcxwbn/

Cloudflare: Google Abuses Search Monopoly for 4.8x AI Data Advantage

#AI #Google #Cloudflare #BigTech #Search #AITrainingData #AICrawlers #AITraining #Content #Publishers #SearchResults #SearchEngines

European Publishers Council stays true to the tired old trope about “copyright theft”

A few weeks ago Walled Culture explored how the leaders in the generative AI world are trying to influence the future legal norms for this field. In the face of a powerful new form of an old technology – AI itself has been around for over 50 years – those are certainly needed. Governments around the world know this too: they are grappling with the new issues that large language models […]

#adtech #advertising #artificialIntelligence #bbc #bots #contextualAdvertising #eu #euipo #europeanPublishersCouncil #factChecking #genai #generativeAi #guardian #journalism #licensing #llms #searchEngines #slogan #training #uk #usCopyrightOffice

https://walledculture.org/european-publishers-council-stays-true-to-the-tired-old-trope-about-copyright-theft/

#OpenAI has taken a major leap forward by launching #ChatGPT Search 🚀, a #newfeature that integrates real-time web search capabilities directly into the AI chatbot.
This update enables users to access the #latestnews 📰, #sportsscores ⚽, #weatherupdates 🌦️, and much more, while receiving responses in natural language with citations to reliable web sources 🔗.
This exciting addition positions OpenAI as a formidable competitor to established #searchengines like Google🌐.

#GoogleCompetitor #Neuronus

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

Watch Out for ‘Junk’ Fees When Booking Travel Online - Hotels and airlines struggling to recoup their losses from the pandemic have been includi... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/technology/personaltech/travel-booking-junk-fees.html #prices(faresfeesandrates) #computersandtheinternet #hotelsandtravellodgings #airlinesandairplanes #contenttype:service #travelandvacations #luggageandpacking #consumerreports #searchengines #nerdwalletllc #budgettravel

Abortion Clinics And Misleading Google Maps [geoethics]
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https://ethicalgeo.org/abortion-clinics-and-misleading-google-maps/ <-- shared GeoEthics article
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https://www.businessinsider.com/google-maps-searches-abortion-services-trigger-abortion-fake-clincs-2022-6 <-- shared media article
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“[A] new analysis by Bloomberg has found the [Google Maps] platform routinely misleads people searching for abortion providers and clinics. When users search the words “abortion clinic” in Google Maps, nearly a quarter of the top 10 search results, on average and across all 50 states including Washington D.C., belong to crisis pregnancy centers. Crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, are a type of non-medical organizations with a mission to encourage women to go through with their unwanted pregnancies…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Google #GoogleMaps #inaccurate #false #ethics #geoethics #ethicsmatters #ethicalbusiness #ethicsmatters #ethicalresearch #maps #abortion #abortionclinics #accessibility #CPC #reproductivehealth #searchengines #reproductivemedicine #womanhealth #publichealth #publicsafety #people #share #medical

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

Privacy-oriented search app Xayn raises $12M from Japanese backers to go into devices - Back in December 2020 we covered the launch of a new kind of smartphone app-based ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LMranzZmJ8k/ #artificialintelligence #chieftechnologyofficer #globalbraincorporation #chiefexecutiveofficer #chieffinancialofficer #termsofservice #europeanunion #searchengines #searchresults #onlinesearch #searchengine #worldwideweb #smartphones #california #duckduckgo

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

Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google - Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial inte... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bo39Lxzyao8/ #artificialintelligence #salesforceeinstein #richardsocher #searchengines #marcbenioff #salesforce #startups #privacy #social #google #tc

Censys, a search engine for internet devices, raises $15.5M Series A - Internet device search engine Censys is one of the biggest search engines you’ve probably never hear... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LUcc4mPo1h8/ #computersecurity #greylockpartners #informationage #searchengines #searchengine #smartdevices #computing #security #startups #annarbor #michigan #dugsong

A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up - Sridhar Ramaswamy once ran Google’s $115 billion advertising arm. But he grew disillusioned and wo... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/technology/google-neeva-executive.html #videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #computersandtheinternet #onlineadvertising #greylockpartners #sridharramaswamy #searchengines #googleinc