It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

  • random8847@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s a paid service, so the only way to enforce that unpaid users cannot search is to take a search request and check if it is coming from your account

    That’s not the same as logging.

    You literally need to associate your requests to an account to make basic functionality like this work.

    They just need to check the session of the user on the fly during the search operation. Once the search is done they don’t need to persist any record linking the search and the user.