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Private search engines. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I was using DuckDuckGo for some time, but heard that there are better alternatives. I'm confused, because DDG is used by default in TOR browser, and other privacy respecting browsers (ex. Librewolf). Can you guys recommend any other search engine, and tell me why u recommend it?

Or, is DDG enough?

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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Brave search because it is their search company that finds new ways to make users more anonymus, Brave is not a middle man for another company.

I don't recommend because they force users to verify when searching if Startpage detects a VPN or Tor.

Some will say SearX, a self hosted search engine, the issue with SearX is the search results can be irrelevent or something random. I support it but I don't use it due to not consistently being relevent to my search or not informative.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (5 children)

    the issue with SearX is the search results can be irrelevent or something random.

    Haha, oh, right! I just remembered that often times when I searched something completely harmless some weird porn sites would appear in the results which had clearly absolutely nothing to do with the things I've been searching for. It's one of the reasons why I stopped using SearX(NG).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I modified my searxNG to basically look through the results for anything on a ban list and exclude those items. But out of the box its just pulling stuff from a bunch of unreliable sources. I think you have to do a lot of tuning by using their built in tools to add sites you want to index and get rid of stuff you don't. The cool thing is that you can fine tune it though.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Are you being serious? You're not mocking what I was saying?

    I really want to like Searx but it's not helpful.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I am/was serious, yes. These were my experiences of using SearXNG for over 1.5 years. The project is great but it has some big flaws. Maybe give Whoogle a try. It's what I'm currently using.

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