@Wolven Jeeves, come back, I didn’t mean the hurtful things I said so long ago, I miss you 😢

@Wolven ugh.

@Wolven searx

@Wolven
So what paid engine do you use most?

@Wolven

WebCrawler, where are you now? Life was so simple back then.

@Wolven The enshittification of the internet proceeds apace.

@Wolven These days I’m on Qwant and I’m generally OK with the results.

@Wolven I think I interviewed there, back in the day.

@Wolven indeed. This is what I want from a search engine:

I put in a search.

The search engine shows me pages that have the terms I searched for (not some of them, or what it thinks I meant, or pages it thinks are related to what it thinks I'm searching for. )

If this is 1 page - just show me that one page. If this is 10,000,000 pages, break it up, rank them (showing me how recent they are if you can tell) & let me refine my search.

I start to refine the engine can makes suggestions

@Wolven Jeeves, where have u gone?

@Wolven Clippy will save us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4taIpALfAo