Guide | 🎲 Vivaldi Search Engines Collection 🎲

danielson

A search using this link:
https://books.google.com/talktobooks/
will come up with brief quote from books.

Update:

Talk to Books was an experiment in using a neural language model to search through a large collection of books. Launched in 2018, it delighted millions of users who found that you really could converse with books in a way never imagined.

The experiment proved the effectiveness of language models (sometimes called semantic matching or semantic retrieval models), and they went on to drive features inside such products as Google Shopping, Maps, Gmail, Hangouts, and others.

As with all experiments that eventually reach a conclusion, Talk To Books has taught us all it has to teach and will be closing down effective immediately.

Thanks for visiting Talk to Books! We hope you enjoyed it.

If you're looking for a new kind of AI experience, we suggest checking out bard.google.com. You'll find that Bard knows a lot about books!

Ya well... what else can be said?

Catweazle

@stardepp, also a nice colection

https://medium.com/@imanojshrestha/best-internet-search-engine-used-by-hackers-bd10f55271a6

stardepp

Neeva search engine ceases operation:

https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement

Catweazle

@stardepp, I had serious doubts from the beginning as you can see in the threads announcing Neeva.

stardepp

Snowflake acquires Neeva to accelerate search in the data cloud through generative AI

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai/

stardepp

A very exciting post on how to optimize your website to be found on Google, in German but translated subtitles are available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qsmduwWO2I

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klov3244

help to add service search correctly
vk.com/video

Pathduck

@klov3244 Just look at the resulting URL:

Ergo: https://vk.com/video?q=%s

jorgefilho

Steam Search:

https://store.steampowered.com/search?term=%s

ybjrepnfr

i've been using searX, in POST-mode, in my various browsers for years. over that period i've needed to change Instances several times, depending on server reliability, availability & longevity. for the past several months, no matter which Instance i've tried, & irrespective too of whether searX [project now unsupported] or searXNG, and furthermore regardless of however i might finesse my enabled search engines list within its Settings, the results have been... pretty crappy!

finally sick of it, a few days ago i experimentally reverted to a s/e i abandoned several years back, startpage, when they went over to the dark side. even once they later returned to unicorns & rose petals, i still didn't return to it, coz i dislike its ui [most especially the silly lack of infinite scroll]. however, the serious decline in searXNG results-quality for me has forced my hand, so i'll just have to live with the poor ui, if the results-quality is good... aaaaaaaaand so far, that's been great; a real breath of fresh air.

the only other niggle with it was the distasteful sponsored links at the top. no matter... thanks to uBO, they're now nuked & i no longer see them. so, whilst it's a pity [& i feel like a bit of a foss-traitor] to have had to abandon searXNG, so far startpage [in POST-mode] seems to be doing well for me.

Catweazle

@ybjrepnfr, try with Whoogle, instead of Startpage, Whoogle, like Startpage, use the Google engine, but without the Google crap, like Startpage has, and it's OpenSource with several public instances (list at the bottom of the GitHub page)

https://whoogle.io/search?q=%s

(@stardepp, correct it in your list to the new official search, Whoogle.net not longer exist, the domain is now Whoogle.io)

stardepp

Catweazle

@stardepp, ? try with whoogle.io, it's the new official search domain, Woogle.net not longer exist since time ago.

(And in the name of all gods of the Olymp, don`t use Imgur, one of the worst spyware in the web), use instead Vgy,me, or better FileCoffee, way better and faster than Imgur, apart of privat.

Cr8zyIvan

@Pathduck I'm very curious about the "list" you posted. I'm assuming this is your code for a Script to rapidly access these Websites.

If this is in fact a Script, what program / code do you use it in / with?

Pathduck

@Cr8zyIvan Hi - no this was a long time ago

It was just a listing from the JSON backup of search engines using this mod:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35443/backup-search-engines

No idea if the mod still works, and a lot has changed since then, search engines are now stored in Web Data as a SQLite database and in Sync, so the need for a separate JSON backup is not there for me.

Cr8zyIvan

@Pathduck Gotcha. I'm not a Coder by trade, but I Code a little with AutoHotkey. Your list made me think of some type of pop up menu you would have Coded.

In any case, thank you for sharing (even if it was a long time ago ). More and more, the Googles and Braves of this world don't give me the results I'm looking for and I feel like I'm wasting more and more time Searching for stuff. That's why I'm currently exploring alternative Search Engines. And so yeah, thanks!

Pathduck

@Cr8zyIvan I'm not a coder either - but if you can understand the AHK "language" - probably the most inelegant and ugly syntax I've ever seen in any language - you should be able to understand a lot

Since Vivaldi's search engines are now stored in a database, it's easy to make a backup with the sqlite3 command.
sqlite3 "Web Data" ".dump keywords" .quit > keywords.sql
This will dump the keywords table into a SQL file, that could later if needed be imported back in.

You can also export the keywords table as JSON:
sqlite3 "Web Data" "select * from keywords;" -cmd ".mode json" .quit > keywords.json

Then you can "pretty print" this with the jq command:
jq . keywords.json

https://sqlite.org/cli.html
https://jqlang.github.io/jq/

By far the easiest way to keep a backup of your search engines is using Vivaldi Sync.

Catweazle

Sync search engines is the default setting. I've the full list of mine in Desktop and also in Mobile. Sync is vital for me, also as backup.

danielson

@Catweazle - why is Whoogle.net still listed as search engine in the list?

And when i change the .io part to .net it is blocked by uBlock Origin.

DesertOutlaw

Good collection although most the Google links are useless to me although many others like them. Thanks for posting.

BTW, glad to see I'm not the only one that uses Laut.de