As asked.

  • Frosty@lemm.ee
    2·
    9 months ago

    I recommend startpage.com over duckduckgo. It provides at least the same privacy as DDG while having generally better results because it uses google’s results instead of bing’s.

    Edit: The ultimate search engine though, as mentioned by macattack, is SearxNG because it combines privacy with every other search engine and even allows you to mix and match your result sources.

    • Myaa@beehaw.org
      0·
      9 months ago

      I really want to like stract but I can’t get it to give me good results. I typically search for programming related things and it has difficulty pulling up relevant information regarding things like documentation and posts regarding the issue.

      • Nyanix@lemmy.ca
        1·
        8 months ago

        That’s fair, I can’t say I’ve daily-driven it yet since I’ve still got my Kagi sub, but I’m thinking of defaulting it on my work computer to put it through its paces. It’s done fairly well with some of my tests, but definitely seems to still be getting refined, I’ve noticed recent information can be difficult to find on it

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    gemini search engines are not so bad for likeminded folks with likeminded topics.
    ex: <rare linux search> 12 results!
    vs searching windows how to pay for windows. 0 results. srry. gemini is small.

          • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            gemini://auragem.letz.dev/search/

            gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/

            gemini://geminispace.info/

            gemini://gemplex.space/

            gemini://auragem.letz.dev/search/features/
            gemini://tlgs.one/doc/search
            gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/docs/features.gmi
            gemini://geminispace.info/documentation/searching

  • macattack@lemmy.world
    0·
    9 months ago

    I self-host searXNG, but you can use one of the public instances as well. My understanding is that it is more secure because you’re search results are commingled with whoever else uses the instance, but you also can use something like libredirect to further distribute your search results across various instances for further security

    • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
      0·
      9 months ago

      How exactly do you self host your own searxng instance? Also, based on what you said, wouldn’t having your own instance make you stand out more?

      • macattack@lemmy.world
        0·
        8 months ago

        Someone already gave an extensive comment about how to set things up so I will skip that part.

        Good observation re: self hosting potentially reducing privacy. The way that I keep my privacy during self-hosting is to completely avoid search engines that track my IP address, and then, ideally, although the remaining search engines are less efficient than the likes of Google or Bing, the fact that the results are aggregated hopefully increase the efficiency of the results.

        For my default searches, it uses mwmbl, mojeek & qwant

      • Lunch@lemmy.world
        0·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, I believe that the common consensus here on Lemmy is that Brave is ran by an A-hole and shouldn’t be supported. Secondly it’s hated for injecting it’s own ads and tracking into things aswell as the whole crypto thing.