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you don't have to tell me information about why Rui's drive is gone, I just googled it because I forgot their name (I thought it was Anadius' drive at first)
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eh, ddg is just bing. Only marginally better ideologically, and probably worse practically.
fr!! im always confused when people advertise ddg as 'the best privacy browser' when it is well-known their results are bing's, also the huge marketing campaign they did about how they're 'the most private and respect your privacy' just weirded me out?? like it was a bit suspicious idk. oh yeah and that thing where the mobile ddg browser allowed microsoft trackers on microsoft ads because of their deal with bing (hey that rhymed!!)
++ half the time when i searched for anything moderately obscure there would be 0 results, or even if i didnt search for stuff like that i'd get results completely unrelated to my query.
What's a good web search engine nowadays?
None. There's no good ones. There's at best acceptable ones
meaning the afore mentioned or do you have some tips
I've been liking searxng. It aggregates results from search engines you select and returns the results without being tracked by them.
https://docs.searxng.org/
https://searx.space/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG
Mullvad VPN offers Brave Search as a backend in their Leta search engine proxy. That way you don't have to access Brave directly.
rarely any, for yandex is occasionally useful if you can stand the Russian.
What do you use?
Sadly, Ddg. What else can I use?
I currently really enjoy self-hosted Perplexica (a FOSS alternative to the Perplexity AI search engine), which uses SearXNG as a meta-crawler, and Ollama for local AI integration. I'm very happy with it, but it requires a fairly powerful server (not a Raspberry Pi or another SBC, the only one that might work is the Nvidia Jetson or whatever it's called, but I haven't tried that yet).
I don't know, I also use DDG because I can't find a better alternative. I thought you had a better recommendation 😂
The only thing that comes to my mind is 4get, a proxy for DDG which is a little better for your privacy, since you don't have to trust DDG as much. But it lacks some features like DDG's Bangs.
There's also LibreY, a fork of LibreX, which acts as a proxy for Google. Still not great though. The one thing I really like about it, it that it also has a built-in torrent search feature.
I think the best option is SearXNG, you can configure which search engines you want to use, and you can access DDG bangs by using two exclamation marks (e.g.
!!ytfor YouTube)Unfortunately there's no good self-hostable search engine with a good web crawler