Are there any search engines where you can artificially choose which websites appear higher and lower in results?
I don’t mean like a closed algorithm.
I mean like a search engine I could tell: I want you to downgrade [healthline.com] and push it lower down in results. Or I want you to “upgrade” [arstechnica] and show it higher in results.
etc
Kagi lets you do that, and a lot of other tweaking such as searching within categories of sites.
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looks good. too bad it’s costing money
Yup, came to recommend Kagi as well.
You might enjoy SearXNG.
https://github.com/searxng/searxng
It can be run locally or you can use someone else's instance
https://searx.space/