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4get – A metasearch engine (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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4get is a metasearch engine, similar to Searx and SearXNG

You can find the source code here: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get

And use it here: 4get.ca

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Alternatives like Searx or YaCy all fucking sucks so I made my own thing." (about 4get)

damn. based.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

what's with that? without mentioning why they suck, that's just the ol' "trust me, bro"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Too bad it still sucks.

As a test, I searched Google for "headphone jack" site:lemmy.ml and got 18 results, whereas I got only two results with 4get (DuckDuckGo), and zero results on all the other engines (Brave etc).

For a meta search engine, it's surprising that it doesn't support searching Google for web results.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

The developer is still working on the Google scraper