Based on our record, Whoogle Search seems to be a lot more popular than MetaCrawler. While we know about 63 links to Whoogle Search, we've tracked only 2 mentions of MetaCrawler. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I'm not sure how much the current metacrawler.com has in common with the older versions, but it does seem to work quite well. Source: over 1 year ago
Nice. Earlier this week after trying a fairly simple search query that would have been a cinch to find actual web pages that talked about my topic, Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, all failed big time. I mean, the majority of the first twenty results didn't even contain my first search term. I went looking for "old school" search engines that might still adhere to boolean search rules, and most of the classics either no... Source: over 1 year ago
I deployed whoogle search at home. For laptops it is rather easy to define it as the default search for alfred and the respective browser, but for iOS devices I have not found a way (except some rather clunky and intrusive extensions) to change the default search engine beyond what Apple tells you. Is there a way to to this via pfSense or pihole? So whenever someone searches in the address bar in safari on iOS... Source: about 1 year ago
I host an instance of Whoogle Search that I use and never looked back. It's like someone brought Google back to the golden age. No (direct) tracking, no ads, complete control over the results. Source: about 1 year ago
You know what this community needs? Our own community whoogle server. Source: over 1 year ago
Whoogle for the win; https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search. Source: over 1 year ago
I use whoogle with still uses Google under the hood but strips any PII out of the requests, I also run mine on a publicly hosted server. Source: over 1 year ago
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