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Private search engines.
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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.
SearX instances also get blocked from other search engines a lot.
Oh, I was not aware of that.
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).
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.
You have to set SafeSearch at least to "moderate" to stop NSFW stuff appearing in your search. SearXNG only proxies what other engines feed to it.
Well yea, I tried this once. It didn't eradicate all of the NSFW results, even on strict safe search mode. Anyway, I moved on. :)
Are you being serious? You're not mocking what I was saying?
I really want to like Searx but it's not helpful.
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.