Google pushed their Ai Overview onto my country last night and that finally gave me the push to change search engines.

One thing I did find useful was having product prices displayed in the search result headers but this doesn’t appear to be enabled in any other engine. I used it to quickly scan between retailers as not everything shows up in pricespy or priceme.

I deployed a searxng instance this morning and have heard that you can use json to modify result presentation. Does anyone know if it’s possible to use that to display prices?

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    I’m fairly sure that the price information shown on a Google Search result page is advertising that comes from a different source than the results do.

    As far as I know, you could write a plugin for SearXNG to query suppliers and format the output as required.

    I think that Google Shopping might be queried in the same way, but I’ve never looked into it deeply.

    • terraborra@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Ahh that also explains why it seems to be a google only thing. Thank you though, knowing that it’s through the shopping api will hopefully help me find a solution (if it exists).

  • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I haven’t used google for ages, so didn’t know this was a thing, but it sounds like a handy indicator if it could be added to searxng.