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Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ (presearch.com)

submitted 6 months ago by kurcatovium@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Browsing the web I came across this (meta) search engine. From the first glance, it seems promising and giving quite a good results to my searches. Definitely better than Google, Bing or DDG, which tend to be full of SEO/ads/AI bullshit these days. Does anyone use it?

It somehow implies it's open source and indeed there is github https://github.com/PresearchOfficial too, but I can't find any link from the presearch.com itself to it. It's just... IDK, weird?

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 83 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)

I'm immediately suspicious of anything that says "earn crypto rewards" so that's a "no" from me.

I just use Searx-NG as my meta search engine, and it's been pretty good.

There's another self-hosted actual search engine (with its own dataset + crawler) but I forget its name off the top of my head. I've been looking into setting that up to experiment with.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, that crypto part must be new(ish). I remember it definitely wasn't there about half year ago when I first find out presearch. I believe it had no account to create either.

Well, I'll give SearXNG another chance I assume.

[–] inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Unrelated, but I've never seen someone use the word "assume" that way before. It technically works, I think?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

As a native speaker, I read it as:

I haven't given it much thought, but there's a good chance I'll give it a shot.

It's a bit awkward, but I skipped over it and grasped what I assume was the intended meaning, so it's fine. Better words would be "suppose" or "guess" in this context.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, the best I can do is hope. I'm not a native speaker and my english lessons are long gone, so I put words here and there as they came to my mind hoping the other side will understand... Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

[–] inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hey cool! I'm native and I still don't always know if the way I'm talking is correct, but nobody really cares. If they do and take issue with it, it's not worth worrying about.

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