Has anyone heard of or used maapl.net?
Has anyone heard of or used maapl.net?
Just came across this while scrolling pixelfed!
A Canadian hosted search engine.
I have been using Ecosia, but will have to try this out.
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I just added it as my default on my phone to give it a try. First impressions are that search is slow (they say they combine results from multiple search engines so maybe that’s why?) but the few searches I did returned what I expected from any search engine.
Thanks for posting this! I hope it turns out to be a good enough to keep as my default!
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It's up as sort of a beta right now so sorry about any performance issues. I'll commit more resources as the use case expands
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Welcome! Do you have any concerns regarding amount of people using it vs server costs?
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You're welcome!! I am hopeful too.
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It’s SearXNG
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Use this with Lemmy.ca, Mstdn.ca, Pixelfed.ca, CBC, 1Password, Ground News, Graphene OS, Loops, Pendora.io, Interac.
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Looks like it's just yet another searxng instance:
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Anyone know how to make this default on Firefox? Keeps saying it had an error connecting.
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https://maapl.net/search?q = %s is what I had to put in for the URL for Maapl. (Without the spaces between q, = And %s)
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Tip: You can add a search bar with SearxNG on your Android phone with SearchBar EX
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It's worth knowing that SearXNG (Wikipedia) is an open-source metasearch engine that has many available hosts. At the bottom of maapl.net is a link to a list of public instances. maapl.net isn't actually on the list yet, but there's one other Canadian host, https://searxng.shreven.org/. For any non-Canadians who catch this, there's a bunch of other instances you might want to try, e.g. in Europe.
yep. and for the self-hosters it's easy to setup a private instance of it. i fairly recently set one up, and it's been great.
also, mike, who set that up, also runs a smaller Canadian mastodon instance, with about 150
registeredmonthly active users, so if you're looking for a smaller mastodon instance, that's an option too.Hi, we actually have 150 monthly active users we have several hundred registered users. We've had thousands of registered users at one time but I purge the rolls every so often.
Definitely recommend SearxNG. Been loving using it because I don't need to worry about bullshit results for malvertisements disguised as actual results.
Thank you for this awesome comment! I will be saving those 2 instances in my bookmarks.
Looks like 3 of the 5 search back ends are throwing errors at the moment, so it's basically a frontend for Google and Wikipedia for now.