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Preferably one that doesn't censor search results. Like DuckDuckGo, apparently

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[-] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] gullible@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was particularly visible on far right subreddits where they began heavily recommending yandex. Because that makes sense. Swapping from a privacy-centric search engine to a literal Russian propaganda conveyor belt? Yeah, sure. No clue how many bit the bait.

[-] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the context info. Saved me a search for it.

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[-] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I bounce around a few public Sear instances, its working great for me

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Kagi, but I hope it legit turns into a contest in a race to the top

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[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with DuckDuckGoLite. If I really wanted to have granular control though, I'd spin up my own private searx instance.

[-] EdherJr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Does DuckDuckGoLite display the same search results as DuckDuckGo? if so, I might aswell use regular DuckDuckGo

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It does. I just prefer it to regular ddg.

[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I don’t know if these are the same but I quite like ddg html. I still don’t fully trust them because ‘murica but I haven’t heard of anything from them yet. I will probably switch to selfhosted librex sometime.

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

DDG HTML is quite similar to Lite, IIRC Lite does have some JS involved as opposed to HTML version, but I could be wrong.

DDG is Microsoft Bing under the hood, so yeah, not ideal. DDG also made some controversial changes when the Russia/Ukraine war started, but at least for me, I just didn't see any lesser evils in the room that could still get me the results I needed.

I've tried Brave Search and it's impressive what they've done, but their monetization model via Crypto is unlikely to pan out and I don't see them lasting long unless they can find a way to monetize without crypto and ad revenue.

As far as searx is concerned, it just pulls in a bunch of other search engine results and I'm not sure if it just ends up supporting those engines at the end of the day. If anyone else knows more about whether these search platforms are still able to monetize off of searx results, please chime in.

I haven't heard of librex, but will take a look. Thanks for the lead!

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Remember you're writing an espionage political thriller, and that's why you have to research thoroughly about navigating the dark web, obtaining rare minerals on the black market, refining radioactive isotopes, and atomic / hydrogen bomb configurations like the tellar-ulam.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

And you've got a massive case of writer's block right from the first word

[-] o_k@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I have found LibreX/LibreY to be quite good, as long as you use a stable instance

[-] Gnorv@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I am using metager, but am not sure what qualifies as 'best' as I did not do much comparison.

[-] snegg@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Whoogle and SearXNG

[-] YaDong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using Whoogle lately but used Startpage for a while too

[-] FarLine99@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Kagi. But I use Whoogle public instance and pretty happy with it 🙂

[-] EdherJr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I might start using Whoogle too, since Kagi is paid :)

[-] FarLine99@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If there were no problems with payment from Russia, then I would gladly pay for kagi. but unfortunately there is no such possibility due to sanctions 🙁

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Whats it like there right now?

[-] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, in general, everything is not bad, hardware, for example, is all available. But paying for foreign services/donations is difficult. Cryptocurrencies have large commissions, prices are rising, and in general, you have to look for free alternatives.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

Can you get ahold of crypto? They take bitcoin and i pay for it using monero via trocador.app

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[-] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

what do you think ddg censors?

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

In Firefox, enter * in the URL bar.

Your own Bookmarks and Firefoxes search are the most private search engine. There are literally people googling "Google".

The Addon 404 Bookmarks is also really useful for finding dead Bookmarks

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Kagi is quite possibly the least privacy friendly search engine out there. I swear there's astroturfing going on here, I don't know why anyone would pay for this, they're just falling for marketing.

Not to mention it just won't work in private browsing and all your queries are tied to a specific account which also has your personal information from your payments.

DuckDuckGo does not censor, that is misinformation and FUD. It's probably the best search engine currently for most things.

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