Peace be with you. 🌹So, I've been doing without Google for over a year now and use Mojeek. It takes some getting used to, and isn't as good as well-known search engines, but it's 100% free from Google and Bing. It has is own crawler and index.
A companion read to this article, where the blogger went to the same conference, "google I/O", and then went on the one dedicated to advertisers (same place, just de day after), "Marketing Live". Hang on to something solid, it's bad. Like, really.
Self hosting searxng was the best decision I ever made for search engines. Just point it to a bunch of different engines of my choice and use it. I seriously no longer ever find myself with the old habit of "ugh okay maybe I'll get better results in [insert other engines] this time"... Probably cause it's using them all.
I like the hostnames plugin too. I can rewrite URLs (for example x to xcancel) and also give higher or lower priority to certain domains (or remove them completely.)
I guess this will kill startpage
Startpage stopped working during the very same outage that took bing down
Why will this kill startpage? I only just found it because it's the default for waterfox and I'm quite happy with it. DDG has been getting worse and worse
I started using Ecosia after noticing DDG's downward turn. So far I've enjoyed it. It has problems, but I think those problems are just what passes for the internet these days...
Startpage uses google search. I think they use the paid API service, the question is whether that service will continue after these changes.
I hope not, i really really love startpage
For a few months I've been using local instances of searxng. I've got it running on my laptop and on Termux on my phone. It's been fine for me. It's not always the quickest, but I'm ok with it.
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