Silly name but works wonders.
I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my workflow is searching for information. As search engines in general keep getting worse and worse, it has became more difficult.
However with Uruky I have managed to find the exact results I need. No silly "AI" summaries. No other weird shit. Just list of links. That's all I want and that's exactly whar Uruky provides.
It seems like a search engine that actually trusts me to be able to read and understand the results. It doesn't nag me with "hey you idiot, heres a hallucinated summary." It respects me as it doesn't try to throw me some magic bullshit but just allows me to open links and read with my own damn brains.
I know I am getting older, but modern websites seem to have this expectation that the users are stupid and can't think for themselves. Uruky does not have this issue.
I hope Uruky just keeps being list of links and that's all. Sure, maybe showing a location on a map or small wikipedia blurb I can deal with. Anything more is just frustrating.
It costs 5e/month. But if that is the price for a website to respect me, especially something as important as search engine, then I will gladly pay.
Hope it stay this way for years to come. Oh and if you pay for 12 months you get the source code, which is really nice to me: can self-host it if the situation demands it, making sure the site can keep living.
And no, I am not interested in Kagi: https://www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/ Uruky has not paid me for posting this or anything, I am just genuinely happy user.