• @_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      04 days ago

      Yes, however, using a public SearXNG instance makes your searches effectively private, since it’s the server doing them, not you. It also does not use generative AI to produce the results, and won’t until or unless the ability for normal searches is removed.

      And at that point, you can just disable that engine for searching.

        • @_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          13 days ago

          Yes, but that’s not the only benefit to it. It’s a metasearch engine, meaning it searches all the individual sites you ask for, and combines the results into one page. This makes it more akin to DDG, but it doesn’t just use one search provider.

          • @leanleft@lemmy.ml
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            22 days ago

            it’s a fantastic metasearch engine. but also people frequently dont configure it to its max potential IMO . one common mishap is the frequent default setting of sending queries to google. 💩