鴉PieFedFediverse Searching
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ozonedI was discussing this on another post and when we're doing internet searches for any kind of information I feel we should be discussing that on the Fediverse or bringing back the info to the Fediverse.
But some folks brought up some excellent points that Kagi has a Fediverse bang.
I run SearxNG and asked in their Matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org
possiblemeatball pointed out that SearxNG also has a Fediverse !bang . If you go to Preferences - Engines - Social media there are bangs for lemmy comments, lemmy communites, mastodon hashtags, etc. We need to be leveraging this!
What other search engines foster the Fediverse?
I was just pointed to https://fedi-search.com/ which seems awesome, but I haven't leveraged YET!
Noice! I am able to find this very thread through searxng, which seems to behave like an actual search engine with its own search results page, but I couldn't find it through fedi-search, which seems to be little more than an auto redirect tool.
What is Searx
SearXNG is a self hosted search. Basically you go to your SearXNG instance, put in your search and it pulls from all kinds of different search engines to give your results.
https://github.com/searxng/searxng
Awesome! Glad to know it works so well! :-D
Any idea how it knows which sites to look through? It'd be cool to have it prefer your own home instance in results.