We have one of the lowest ratios of crap to legitimate content, human-made content, on the Internet
Well it's microsoft, so maybe neocities wasn't ai enough
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Honestly someone should spin up a small web index. You can isolate yourself to a nice corner of the Internet and ignore the rest of the toxic mess.
Yes. I want an old school sewrch engine that JUST does blogs and small websites. And no "Big News Website Blogs". Just random people on Wordpress and Blogger, etc.
I was browsing a Geocities archive the other day and its just like, fuck I miss when the web was just fun and random people making dumb websites about random shit.
isnt that the point of neocities?
Kagi, the premium paid search engine, has a "small web" feature that is exactly this
Back in my day, I had an internet butler do that for me.
searchmysite.net and search.marginalia.nu are both kinda interesting. I don't know that their models scale particularly well, but in some ways they don't have to
Time for some Neocities webrings
looks like this issue has infected duckduckgo as well*:
*due to them being based off of bing
Who uses bing?
DuckDuckGo users?
AFAIK there are only like 4 search engines in the world:
- Bing
- Yahoo
- Yandex
Virtually every search site uses one or a combination of these.
Yahoo uses the bing index, and aside from Google, Bing, and Yandex the only other larger english general search engine with its own index is Mojeek. Seirdy's blog has more info on this along with reviews of more niche engines, and there is also the search engine map if you want something more visual.
I would love to support Mojeek for its independence, but I tried using it for a while and I could rarely ever get accurate and reliable search results, especially for queries involving specific locations, medical queries, queries related to recent events, or queries involving non-English languages.
pretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo "alliance thing" (can't remember what it's officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).
Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is...yeah.
Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they're all the same except with those two you're not going to get the AI slop or ads.
my self hosted surprise of last year was a searxng container. i will never go back!!
I hate the bing-yahoo search engine. On DDG, searching for news is absolute garbage.
Ask it to check latest news like "Donald Trump really make AI videos of Obama as Gorilla" and the News Search found 1 news article and 20 posts from a five years ago. But on Google News, it's like 50 articles.
yeah I don't bother with DDG anymore. used to love it but now it's just hot garbage. Now I just use a 4get instance and for news just use the brutalist report and spike.news
Kagi has its own search engine and internal web indexing:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html#search-sources
Yep, this is what I use.
There's a UK search engine called Mojeek that has its own index. I won't claim it's results are as good as Google/Bing/Kagi etc but if you want to use an alternative it exists. I typically start all my searches there and then transition to DDG if I can't find what I'm looking for.
There are no Chinese search engines?
Pretty much every other search engine uses as it as their only or supplemental source as do all metasearch engines.
Anyone who uses duckduckgo, since that's where it gets its results from.
Bing is basically the only search engine that doesn't actively censor our porn results. Its impossible to find videos for shit on Google even with "safe search" turned off.