[email protected] wrote:
Quoth Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>:
On 2025-11-02, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
This url is one way to avoid AI overviews and which I assume use much less
energy but I dislike personally in any case.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%20&udm=14
https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=%s
or https://lite.duckduckgo.com if one doesn't mind duckduckgo search
results. it's nice and minimal (i use startpage sometimes for image
search tho)
That is good advice. I would want to add to it. There are many FOSS
public search engine frontends which are very handy because they shield
your searches against big search providers, they provide a debloated
experience, and if you like them you can self host them.
An added advantage is they don't use a single search index. If you use
Duckduckgo You only see what Duckduckgo wants or can serve. If you use a
metasearcher, you can see what other indexes have so if a result is
absent for one you have a good chance of finding it from another index.
I like https://4get.ca/. The captcha is annoying but there are instances
which have it disabled, and you can self-host it.
SearxNG is also fine. Go find an instance with good uptime, such as
https://search.citadel.org/
