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What HN commenters recommend, ranked by distinct recommenders. Under each: what people praise most and the most common caveat, or the strongest quote where there is no summary yet.
- 1.Loved for Result quality, Result customization · Caveat Political objections
- 2.Loved for Good-enough results, Google alternative · Caveat Declining quality
- 3.Loved for Recovering lost pages, Concept appeal · Caveat Resource usage
- 4.Loved for Instant search, Replaces Windows search · Caveat Database rewrites
- 5.Loved for Small web discovery, Obscure finds · Caveat Smaller index
- 6.Loved for Less censorship, Pirated content · Caveat Russian state ties
- 7.Loved for Quick lookups, Coverage and relevance · Caveat Ads over results
- 8.Loved for Usable results, DuckDuckGo alternative · Caveat IP sharing
- 9.found its speed, capabilities, and simplicity all significant improvements compared to the MariaDB-based search
- 10.Wolfram Alpha was a genuinely useful and good tool, perfect for the times.
- 11.I use qmd for that on over 20 years of journaling and saved quotes, works great
- 12.Pagefind is stupidly easy to integrate. And it's what you probably ought to be using whatever your SSG.
- 13.I discovered uruky today via alternativeto.net and I love it.