Google’s results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they’ve taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming.

I’ve mitigated a lot of that by doing searches for any kind of product comparison or technical question with “site:reddit.com”, but now with the possibility that that trick will become less useful over time as well…?

Yeah. What search engines are other tech folks using?

  • Lyrac@lemmy.world
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    Thanks for the tip! Just set up my docker container. How do you configure the hostname replacements? In the UI Preferences menu, there’s just a toggle switch for “Hostname Replace”, but nowhere to input a list of names.

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      Not sure if you can see this since beehaw defederated us, but just add/edit the following in your settings.yml file in the searxng folder. The following redirects only reddit & twitter:

      enabled_plugins:
         - 'Hostname replace'
      
      hostname_replace:
      #   '(.*\.)?youtube\.com$': 'invidious.example.com'
      #   '(.*\.)?youtu\.be$': 'invidious.example.com'
      #   '(.*\.)?youtube-noocookie\.com$': 'yotter.example.com'
         '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'teddit.net'
         '(.*\.)?redd\.it$': 'teddit.net'
         '(www\.)?twitter\.com$': 'nitter.net'
      #   # to remove matching host names from result list, set value to false
      #   'spam\.example\.com': false
         '(.*\.)?pinterest\.com': false
         '(.*\.)?instagram\.com': false