Previously I was looking for search engine that turned out it wasnt worth remembering afterall. As people helped, i thought its easier to just list every site its not. The site I was looking for turned out to be maintained by some rightwing assholes, but I thought maybe it could still be useful as it collects scrapers from many engines into one site. But since it apparently blocks lqbt domains, its basically worthless since who knows what else it blocks. Apparently anything those fucks touch is tainted.
I tried describing the site based on what I remembered and how it appeared to me. now it feels shameful even leaving it as context. The picture gets conveyed through the comments anyway for those interested.
I’m sorry it ended up like this, I should probably have done this much eariler and not give the site any benefit of the doubt.
So, instead lets make this into list of search engines so this post might have at least something positive about it. I already started gathering the list earlier as by product of the unfortunate search. It might be better to just scrap this all and start with new post but it would also erase what happened and the lesson learned.
I know there are lists already, but I dont think they all have every engine, especially smaller or newer ones. We could also gather information about engines’ maintainers, stuff that helps determine what to expect from them. I’ll try gathering it here on this post from the comments and if I find something myself.
Lets avoid all ai searchers since those ought to be in their own category anyway.
List of search engines
- bing
- kagi
- yacy
- ask.com
- searx
- brave
- ecosia
- mojeek
- duckduckgo
- marginalia
- startpage
- giburu
- yippy
- qwant
Holy moly! I wish you luck in your quest. Please let us know if you figure it out. Every engine I was going to suggest has already been mentioned by others.
my only hope at this point is someone in lemmy knowing about it, so you all will know about it at same time as me if that person replys to this post. At least maybe this post might become useful as list of search engines by process of elimination :D
I tried browsing through lemmy with searchword “search engine”, but it think the comment was relatively short like “you should try xyz” or something like that. On top of that it was reply to someone elses message.
Hey, someone found the engine i was looking for. It was 4get. Though it was also revealed that the site is run by people who think its good idea to put facist’s face as memepicture there.
Thank you for updating me, what a rollercoaster this post was! I’ll definitely check it out (superficially at least), the fascist part is a bit disconcerting.
Yeah, though now the sites name makes sense. Must be made by someone who uses 4chan.
@reksas @CuddlyCassowary About page says: https://search.mint.lgbt/about
“This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft/globohomo bullshit they add.”
and instances page disallows finding out (it seems) only lgbt domain easily by clicking: see https://4get.ca/instances?target=web&s=avisynth+super+res&scraper=google&nsfw=yes
Yeah, I think this guy hates lgbt.
Look, I didnt remember it was like that, but i understand that how i described it looks quite bad after the fact. If it does that then its worthless as search site as who knows what else it might remove. At this point it might be better to just delete this whole post or change it to just list every search engine everyone knows.
I regret wanting to remember that damn site now.
@reksas Sorry I didn’t mean to be snarky or sarcastic. I just meant to add to the pile of evidence for future readers
No worries, its good that you provided more information. Its always better for such things to be revealed.