New Search Engine; Yep [beta].

guigirl

Atm, its user Settings offer extremely minimal configurability, but maybe that'll change over time?

From the 2nd link above:

Yep’s results are much staler than all the competitors it points to, aside from Mojeek’s (which are pretty atrocious).

IMO that mention of Mojeek is most topical; after Mojeek released, & i read all its blurb, boasts & aspirations, i was very keen to try it, but it has been extremely disappointing wrt result relevance & recency, every time ever since... so i ponder maybe a similar fate for Yep...

Sample result, Yep vs searX.

Anyway, better we have more than fewer!

steveshank

@guigirl I got some good results and this engine looks promising. The results are clean, no ads on top.

They are using their own spiders and have a big database scanning 8 billion sites a day. I've run some experiments, but haven't yet figured out the URL for a shortcut in Vivaldi. Have you? I've been playing with a lot of search engines and definitely want to add this one to the mix.

guigirl

@steveshank Hiya, glad to hear that it gives promising results for you. I added it to both my Snappie, & my [FF]Nightly. Though i continue with searX as default, i frequently double-search via Yep after searX, then compare.

https://yep.com/web?q=%s

Catweazle

At the moment I have added it to my collection, it is quite fast, although it lacks the image search. This is shared with Mojeek, this redirects image searches to Bing and for this reason I don't take it much into account at the moment.
The ones I use the most now is Andisearch as the first search, because it shows the most relevant results with the AI engine, and Groot as the second, it also uses its own engine and also shows the largest number of results in the image search

https://yep.com/web?q=%s
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https://andisearch.com/?query=%s

https://groot.ssuiteoffice.com/#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=%s&gsc.sort=

steveshank

@guigirl How did you come up with the /web? parameter? In other words, I appreciate you giving me a fish to eat, but I want to know how to fish.

thanks

steveshank

@Catweazle I am liking andi a lot myself, particularly for complex searches. You fizzled out for me. - That's you.com the search engine, not catweazle. I still use Qwant. Yep has returned some nice results fast. Andi takes awhile to process my queries. Brave's search engine is still in the running, it does fairly well. Anyone know if they backup with Bing to supplement their own? etools.ch has replaced one of my Searx options.

I approach images completely separately. I treat it as a separate task and need images I can use and at least resize, so not commercially copyrighted.

Catweazle

@steveshank , don't get me wrong, if I mentioned image search, there are several concepts to differentiate.

I can search for images about certain news, humorous or technical images, for this the best service it provides is Groot,

I can search for a given image, through the context menu, where the best, most relevant and complete results are given by Yandex (which I use from a extension)

But I can also search for images free of copyright, to use it in some projects for which it is not convenient to get into the copyright of third parties, for this I use the search engine of Pixabay (you can add it easy to your search engines with right click over the search bar), web with free images (illustrations, vectors, videos, music, sounds) with public license or CC (Most of muy wallpapers are from there)-

guigirl

@steveshank said in New Search Engine; Yep [beta].:

giving me a fish to eat, but I want to know how to fish

Teehee, very Zen. I have three provisional answers, you can ~~pick~~ choose [teehee; // retrospective edit] any that might [accidentally] help

As a member of The Illuminati, we see all, & know everything [euw, stop picking your nose!].

My friends Vroomfondel & Majikthise asked Deep Thought for The Answer.

When i discovered that the V auto-generated search code failed, i simply did a dummy search direct from the Yep page, then noted the resultant initial segments of the url, then appended the generic part V recommended.

steveshank

I really did that, but missed the /web somehow. Can't understand why Vroomfondel didn't give me the correct answer. I suppose it could have something to do with the picking thing.