hedge to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 month agoBing outage shows just how little competition Google search really hasarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarehedgeOPlinkfedilinkEnglish30•1 month agoSeems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think…
minus-squarebrielinkfedilink22•1 month agoAlexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.
minus-square@Mojeek@lemmy.mllinkfedilink20•1 month agoThis is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing 😀
minus-square@doxxx@lemmy.calinkfedilink2•1 month agoKagi.com has its own I believe. But you have to pay a subscription to use it.
minus-square@Mindless_Enigma@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoMy understanding is that Kagi relies on the likes of Bing and Google but since it uses more than one of them it can keep functioning if one goes down.
minus-square@doxxx@lemmy.calinkfedilink2•1 month agoTIL. I thought they had their own crawler. I’m a little disappointed.
minus-squaredarreninthenetlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoThey do both, their own index focuses on the “small web”, more info here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
Seems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think…
Alexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.
This is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing 😀
🙂👍
Nice! Mojeek looks great. Thanks for the tip!
Kagi.com has its own I believe. But you have to pay a subscription to use it.
My understanding is that Kagi relies on the likes of Bing and Google but since it uses more than one of them it can keep functioning if one goes down.
TIL. I thought they had their own crawler. I’m a little disappointed.
They do both, their own index focuses on the “small web”, more info here:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html