How bad are search results? Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, and ChatGPT

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  • giggle

    A self-hosted, customizable and ad-free Google Search experience

  • Google's PSE is neat but there isn't a good way to manage switching between them. They could easily add a little dropdown to let you select which one to use as part of the public link UI they provide for each one individually. Giggle[1] gives me this ability and I run it locally (alongside Kagi) for more specific things to target domain lists I've been building over the years.

    1. https://github.com/dan-lovelace/giggle

  • mwmbl

    An open source, non-profit search engine implemented in python

  • Ironically I had to use a search engine to discover what "Mwmbl" was. It's apparently a search engine. But, visiting the front page, I see something akin to a git commit log?! I'm not sure I'd have guessed that this was a SE if Brave Search did not tell me it was (even then I'm not convinced yet).

    https://mwmbl.org/

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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