I want to third Kagi. I switched to Kagi solely over a year ago and have not looked back. The search is so much better than Google or Bing. Another bonus is that you can pay via Lightning through their OpenNode integration.

As far as customization goes, I can have it give me only links directly to PDFs, only search certain academic journals that I select, only search Reddit, etc, etc. It prioritizes sites that have less advertising or tracking in the results too.

The creator of Kagi has a project called TinyGem that is a repository for links and content discovery. Might help you organize some of your thoughts too.

Obsidian is another tool that requires some work on your part, but then would be a tool to search through everything you've mentioned. You can even hook up open source LLMs running locally to help you sort through your Obsidian database.

You might want to checkout Kagi.

because anything being "for you" is an advertising slogan and nothing is ever "for you", it's for the people that make it, control it, and profit from it. If you want something for you, you have to make it yourself.

It's sort of intractable, if we're talking about something like Google search. If we assume Google's algorithm is slow, personalizing for everyone one earth will make it 8 billion times slower. If it takes 5 minutes to run, personalizing it, for one run, will take 76,000 years.

I'm sure it's not that slow, and can be adapted to not redo a bunch of identical work for every person, but the point is that certain algorithms scale poorly.

We do have Like duck gogo and Bing

try to search slowly, because the machine now holds a lot of weight.

Because you are not paying for a service.

Because this isn’t really demanded by the majority of the people. Most of us don’t really care about accuracy and fairness, as long as we get our search results from Google

Greed.