• ijon_the_human@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I would like two search engines displaying results side by side whenever I do a search. There’s so much empty space on a wide screen display anyway.

    Maybe I should check if there’s an addon for this…

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      12 days ago

      Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but a searx instance can return commingled results from multiple engines

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      12 days ago

      I guess you’re too young to remember the good old days of dogpile searching on four engines within one page.

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          I’d have Ask Jeeves, Hotbot, and Yahoo opened when I was trawling the Internet for porn while my parents were out for 30m when I was 14 years old. There were always substantially different results, though somehow they always ended up the same: with me infecting my parents’ computer with some shit. Let’s say I did a lot of learning from my mistakes.

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            12 days ago

            Remember the porn networks that tried to get you to download their software to connect, and then it ended up being a dialer to a 900 number?

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              That is funny, and sounds like it’d be pretty expensive. I actually didn’t encounter this fortunately, because I was already costing my parents a fortune because I just couldn’t stay under 300 texts a month.

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        12 days ago

        Not really no!

        There was a “Multi Web Search” by Oleksandr for Firefox but it was last updated five years ago. It also intermingles the results whereas I would’ve liked to see them side by side (to compare how different search engines rank the sites)

        The SearX feature the other guy mentioned might be the best bet!