Fact: 90% of science is made with quartz

... accurate

My favourite mineral - potato.

Presenting to the emergency room with hyponatremia, from hypo meaning low, natron meaning sodium, and hemia meaning presence in blood. Low sodium presence in blood !

What if I'm bleeding out from a gunshot wound and I have a crystal that is sufficient diameter to plug said gunshot wound?

To be fair; pretty common.

You could probably use crystals of other elements to treat other deficiencies too, such as iron? But it's probably easier to just take an iron tablet or eat some food containing iron 😂

Same experience I have had. Swapping to scholar gets me relevant results that aren't filled with ai gibberish and backwater Hokum. Still have to be careful about study sizes and sigma values and applicability, but miles ahead for at least getting to that being my issue.

Putting scientific in the search criteria should redirect there then.

What’s the scientific term for rocks?

"There are a lot of results that aren't what you're looking for."

Okay, great?

Brave uses its own index. It used to be supplemented with results from other engines but I believe they have now phased that out.

Brave is the best of the free options in my experience, and it supports "bangs" which let's you send your querry to a different engine (typing "how far is it to the sun !g" will pass the search to google. Duckduckgo also supports bangs), this is especially helpful for image searches (!gi for google images) since braves image search sucks dogshit 😅

Quant seemed like the second best free option in my experience. Some people don't like brave as a company for various reasons, so quant may be a good option for those folks. Its my understanding that Mozilla has worked with quant in some way, which is kinda neat.

Both have their own index making them a sustainable/viable option going forward, where meta search engines that use other engine's results are at the whim of those they fetch the results from (but may provide better results by piggybacking off a larger successful engine)

Ecosia uses the money they generate with ads to plant trees 🌿 (I think it's bing on the backend)

Brave Search does not use Google and Bing. And why did you skip over DDG?

Kagi user here.

Bought a month to test it and then went for a year immediately afrer. I really like it!

Qwant was good until they georestricted it for no reason

MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer's own control. In September 2013, MetaGer launched MetaGer.net, an English-language version of their search engine.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer

It currently supports the following languages/regions:

Dansk (Danmark)

Deutsch (Österreich/Schweiz/Deutschland)

English (Great Britain/Ireland/Malaysia/USA)

Español (España/México)

Suomalainen (Suomi)

Français (Canada/France)

Italiano (Italia)

Nederlands (Nederland)

Polski (Polska)

Svenska (Sverige)

Source: https://metager.org/lang

There is a TOR-hidden service too:

https://metager.org/tor

It is open source:

https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer

And has other useful features, for example:

[...] you can hide yourself behind our proxyserver just by opening the result anonymously? Use "OPEN ANONYMOUSLY"; this also affects the following links.

Source: https://metager.org/tips

Alternatively I use some SearxNG-instances, preferably hosted in the EU:

https://searx.space

I’ve commented about potential Kagi astroturfing here before.

Seems likely to me.

Their trial - too short for me - felt like a private Google w/improvements.

Now, as a filthy freeloader, my default is DuckDuckGo. I am dissatisfied with the results and !bang out to Google (!g) about half the time. I pray DDG makes use of this data to improve their engine.

tl;dr astroturfing vs. bad results vs. enabling the king of adware

Gosh I need to set up SearXNG! Also “private Google” vibes. Instances here

Hell, typing in "scientific data about minerals" gets me a bunch of university geology department websites.

Why are there so many people pushing for kagi in this thread and skipping over the fact that duckduckgo exists?

It's a tide ad

I know right? Completely ruin geology.

Excluding crystal from a search about minerals may eliminate more than you want.

I've tried the exclusion Boolean term with Google before, and it really didn't work :(