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Tangential question. What do people use for search? What search engines provide the best quality to cost ratios? Also are there good solutions for searching th

• andai 11mo ago
  ddg (python lib) is free and I'd say good enough for most tasks. (I think the endpoint is unofficial, but from what I've heard it's fine for typical usage.) There's also google, which gives you 100 requests a day or something. Here's the search.py I use import os import json from req import get # https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/controlpanel/create GOOGLE_SEARCH_API_KEY = os.getenv('GOOGLE_SEARCH_API_KEY') GOOGLE_SEARCH_API_ID = os.getenv('GOOGLE_SEARCH_API_ID') url = "https://customsearch.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1" def search(query): data = { "q": query, "cx": GOOGLE_SEARCH_API_ID, "key": GOOGLE_SEARCH_API_KEY, } results_json = get(url, data) results = json.loads(results_json) results = results["items"] return results if __name__ == "__main__": while True: query = input('query: ') results = search(query) print(results) and the ddg version from duckduckgo_search import DDGS def search(query, max_results=8): results = DDGS().text(query, max_results=max_results) return results
  • mwambua 11mo ago
    Oh, nice! Thanks! This reminds me of the unofficial yahoo finance api.
• nickthegreek 11mo ago
  just setup searxng yesterday and mcp for it in lm studio to be able to search the net for answers to simple queries. small ibm granite worked surpassingly well, while oss20b seemed to be looping searches.