Im noticing its harder and harder to find things on google. Searching for a companies quarterly profits, cost of medical care for all per capita, and othet economic details are all getting more and more buried in google. Just asking how other contries do their social programs results in us based opionion articles…like wtf are we even doing.

I understand scrolling and indexing sites is an enormous undertaking. Is there currently a federated open source search engine? If not is their a potential to create one?

Is there a trustworthy private option?

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    Does DDG really generate its own searches? I was under the impression that it uses the Bing API. Maybe that’s outdated or only applies to certain types of search?

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
      2·
      16 hours ago

      I think there is some postprocessing but yeah it uses Bing. I simply meant that SearXG uses its results (and Bing too for that matter). So it’s layers all the way down.