What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding “reddit” or whatever internet community to the results?

  •  Freeman   ( @freeman@lemmy.pub ) 
    13•1 year ago

    At $10 it’s 1000 unique searches. I search a ton and have it on my phone etc. haven’t exceeded the limit. I am at 600 searches right now, with a renewal due on the 24th.

    They are writing a search engine from scratch. They don’t just randomize bing or google searches. So I think you may be underestimating the operating and especially development costs, probably hosting costs too.

    But to each his own. Also those streaming services you mention. They don’t really turn a profit, and definitely don’t on subscriptions.

    •  navordar   ( @nawordar@lemmy.ml ) 
      5•1 year ago

      They are writing a search engine from scratch

      They are using Google and a few other engines, but unlike Searx, they are using the official API instead of scraping, which is a big part of costs

    •  dan   ( @dan@lemm.ee ) 
      5•1 year ago

      1000 is more reasonable but it’s still only 33 per day. I’ve done 52 searches today. $10 is still way too much.

      How much better would a search engine have to be to make it worth the cost of a streaming service? For me, quite a lot…

      But yeah I don’t mean to say your choice to pay for it isn’t valid. As you say, to each their own.

      •  Freeman   ( @freeman@lemmy.pub ) 
        5•1 year ago

        Understandable.

        I think my point is for me and in my specific use case, I actually search less.

        For example if I am debugging a process or working through some setup, I will often have to iterate through a series of searches with tweaks in DDg and sometimes even google. Using tweaks like site:some site.com, quoted portions of queries to reduce useless returns etc.

        Kagi, again for me, had helped reduce that. I can’t often find a very quality source in the first query or two.

        So the limit wasnt hugely a problem. I was actually VERY concerned like you because above 10 dollars is pretty steep. I initially signed up at 10, set limits not to exceed 15 and figured I would cancel and either submit a request at work for an annual or just ditch it.

        Luckily two things happened that retained me. The first I already mentioned. The second was they bumped the quota to 1000.

        Again I may still jsut see if I can get work to pay it out. But at 10 bucks it’s digestible, for me, for the value add. I also do no filtering. Just search whatever random shit I think of n the shitter in addition to curated work searches.

        I’m not trying to sway you. Idgaf if you use it or not. Just trying to help provide useful information because for me, it was more “ehhh let’s see how it works out”

        Finally, I have reached out to Vlad about suggestions and even corrections on things, both in the product and ancillaries (like their documentation). He’s responded each time and even corrected some of the issues. Which is really nice.