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Google search is severely broken.

I was feeling this as well, but didn't pay attention _how_ bad it is. I mean it really is... Is there ANY search engine left that returns more than 500 results for any search? Are there any community driven search engines? I mean at this point it can't be hard to build a better alternative...

Kagi is great so far!

Tried it, but returning lots of results doesn't seem to be their focus.

Now I installed OpenSearchServer and see how far a local index gets me. The simple query "a" gets me at most 394 results at google, after letting OpenSearchServer crawl/index for just 2h I already get over 900 results for "a". Well.. I guess it really is not hard to beat that meager 394 results.

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