I used to run a public instance and I can assure you that if the maintainer doesn't tamper with it (which is very unlikely to happen), the only "bias" you would get is the bias from the upstream engines.
Go to https://searx.space/ and look for the parameters of each public instance. Most of them are "vanilla" ones.
Yes. Not really that different from 2024.
They can't afford a house, you mean?
I use it daily and it occasionally may crap out, but it may happen maybe once every few weeks. Can't comment about GPU and the likes as I only have an Intel iGPU which works just fine.
That's not how it works.
Just like 90% of the world.
I'm a bad person and I'm going to Hell for lol'ing at this image.
This place is exactly as shitty as Reddit is. Just "decentralized". I have already mentioned this elsewhere. Don't you dare not being part of some circle jerk or to have a slightly unpopular opinion. And no, I'm not talking about LGBT rights nor anything related to it.
12-hour format is an abomination. Unix time ftw.
DDG was so good... Until they switched to Apple Maps. I do't even use maps at all, but this bothered me a lot, as those money could have been spent in funding OSM.
Thus, I switched to SearXNG.