Been using SearXNG for about a year now, and I just can’t deal with instances constantly getting blocked by search engines anymore. So I’d like to find something a bit more reliable. I’ve read that DuckDuckGo has had some controversies in the past, and I wouldn’t touch Brave with a 39 and a half foot pole.
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Definitely give Kagi a try. Reliable, pretty accurate and privacy respecting. For that though you’ll need to actually pay for the service.
Can you explain what’s so good about it compared to Google besides the privacy aspect? I hear it’s “better” a lot.
+1 for Kagi. I finally decided to drop Google after their bullshit WEI proposal with Chrome recently and it has been great so far. Yes, Kagi is paid, but we all know the saying that “if you’re not paying for it, you are the product.” That’s not the case with Kagi.
Curious, do they accept crypto as payment?
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I’ve seen it mentioned and you’re quite right about expecting to get quality, privacy, and free. It’s always a pick two.
But can you explain why Kagi is so good?
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Also a Kagi user here. First thing you’ll notice compared to other search engines is no ads at the top.
Comparing between multiple search engines, Kagi consistently delivers relevant results for world wide content, but also for more local searches.
You can further refine your search by up/down ranking sites for yourself or even create customized lenses that search specific (types of) sites if you know where you might find the answer. There are multiple predefined lenses, for example searching only .edu domains, forums or programming language websites.
kagi is great, ddg is also improving
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Maybe you should give Qwant a try
Qwant just shows Bing results, like most alternative search engines.
Man that website was so useful, thank you for linking it
Startpage.com Other i use are listed on privacytools.io
What are the controversies with DuckDuckGo? I’ve never heard of anything.
Their browser is sharing data with MS, since they’re using their services instead of Google. They’ve been upfront about it and explained there is no way around it.
As long as you just use their search engine, you’re fine.
In addition to the Microsoft trackers, I referenced this as well in another reply in this topic:
https://reclaimthenet.org/duckduckgo-down-ranking-russian-disinformation
There are plenty of other sources that also reported on this.
You can use Farside with a Whoogle instance.
That way you don’t have to rely on a single instance.
How can I set this up on cromite?
I’ve added farside.link searx instance “main link” (https://farside.link/searx) to “homepage” but it gives me the same searx instance everytime
TIL about farside, it looks very useful
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Search (pun) for a SearxNG (read as searching) instance.
It’s an open source meta search engine. You can make it even more private if you selfhost it.
OP said they want to stop using SearxNG.
Also, selfhosting it makesist less privacy friendly, if you are hosting it only for yourself, as the search engines your instance is contacting can easily determine that all those searches are coming from a same IP. Sp, even if it is preventing the telemetry collection, a detailed profile can be made on the person hosting it. Butiff multiple people are using it, profiling becomes difficult. Same is the case with using self-hosted VPNs. They are good against censorship and for some other things, but not for privacy.
Oh, thank you for correcting me! It’s right there and I didn’t see it. My bad.
You raise good points. I confess I hadn’t thought about it like that. So, not only you corrected me, you also enlightened me. I’m today’s lucky 10000!
I selfhost SearXNG and route it’s traffic through a VPN. I rarely get blocked by search engines, and when I do I just change the VPN server. You lose the benefit of your data being intermixed with everyone elses on a shared instance, but you still get the other privacy improvements from SearXNG
Do you have the ability to run your own Whoogle instance?
Mullvad Leta is a good option but it’s not convenient because you need to be connected to their VPN
