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this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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You can just... use another service
Suggestions:
Qwant
Ecosia
Startpage
Good
Swisscow
metaGer
DuckDuckGo
Brave Search
More: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/
Oh and also Bing 🤢
You can (and probably should, Bing obviously excepted), but given how many of those are effectively just anonymous proxies for Google or Bing results, it doesn’t really solve the issue of the search monopoly intentionally degrading their search results.
Exactly, for anyone who's interested:
Qwant = Bing
Ecosia = Google + Bing
Startpage = Google / Bing
Swisscow = Bing
metaGer = Bing
DuckDuckGo = combination of Yahoo, Google, Bing, and a tiny bit of their own indexing
Brave Search = mostly their own index, but a tiny bit of Bing
Yahoo = used to have their own indexer, but mostly Bing since 2009ish
There are only a few independent indexers, most notably Yandex, but also some tiny projects like vyntr, marginalia, wiby, and other small ones which only index a small fraction of the web.