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FediSearch — Easily Search the Fediverse (fedi-search.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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EDIT: Seems to be having trouble now, we may have given it a hug of death.

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 6 hours ago

I got:

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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 13 hours ago

Aaaand it doesn't work

[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago

Tried to search Rust, but it gave me this 1000046547

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 31 points 1 day ago

Works quite well, thanks for sharing

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

FYI: The whoogle options don't work well. Everything else seems fine though.

This is great, thanks for sharing.

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

Sorry not going to turn off my ad blocker for this.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

If anyone knows and other good search engines for the fediverse let me(us?) know. Im trying to find something that isnt just a small wrapper around google/bing/etc...

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I think the there might be some "goggles" for searching via brave that limit things to the Fediverse, that might be worth checking out :)

[-] m_f@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago

Kagi's pretty good and has a Fediverse search feature, but it's paid. I don't mind paying, but there's also no way to do private searches that way, so I'm not going to use it as my main search engine. It's been good at hunting down memes on Lemmy that I want to find again though.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You might already know this, but you can use a Kagi without logging in on private tabs using a "session link" that looks like https://kagi.com/search?token=[LONG TOKEN HERE]. (Of course, this session link is not perfectly anonymous because the token is presumably tied to your account.)

[-] example@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

the token is completely tied to your account.

you can access part of your account info/settings with that as well, a while back they added an extra password prompt to some of that.

truly anonymous searches are simply impossible unfortunately. while they claim they're not logging any searches it's impossible to verify.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 5 hours ago

Right, and for me personally that's fine. I respect that others have different requirements or desires in that regard.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm trying out yacy and it's hitting the same spot. My only issue is self hosting seems to not work well for yunohost so I may need to find a way to run it alternatively somehow.