Been using qwant recently and have to say, its pretty nice so far
I like to use https://searx.neocities.org/ It randomises your search across several searx instances. It's not always reliable as some instances are sometimes down or exceed request limit. But retrying often works. Worst case i use mojeek or ddg
afaik duckduckgo knows all of this.
site: limits the site to search on, even shows a warning for that.
"quotes" make sure all results contain the word.
-apple make sure you wont see results where the page contains this word
A good amount of this is available on Mojeek: https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/08/mojeek-operators-a-guide.html (my employer).
Search is keyword based so the words should be matched in most cases without quotes (omitting stemming here as a possibility); you cannot -"two words" but you could -blind -desire
I gave this a shot since I do like and trust Mojeek, but unfortunately it doesn't appear to bring in any results when I use the search "site:bandcamp.com attribution non-commercial share alike" (not in quotes).
indeed so, thanks for flagging this I'll get it raised so we can see what's going on there
Currently, I prefer the Kagi model as my daily driver -- pay a small fee each month and not worry about having your search data, in all its forms, sold instead. They have some neat features, as well, like AI summaries.
There is also SearXNG, which is an open source, privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine. It can be self-hosted and also has a number of instances you can access.
SearXNG also lets you use Google as one of the engines, allowing you to obtain Google search results anonymously.
Why not searx
searx only meta-search. no support for syntax (mention "search phrase" syntax in doc, but only supported because some search engine used support it)
Good to know!
Taking a look at Swisscows right now. My only concern with them is that I know they filter out sites with adult content, and I do have worries on how that's applied to results with explicit song lyrics or album covers.
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