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What are some lesser known search engines? They can be meta search engines or regular search engines. They still suck, but seems ask jeeves still exists.

Kaffiene.bit https://github.com/April93/Kaffiene

>startpage I heard this one is actually under control by an ad agency. >searx This one has been mostly nice, there are hundreds of instances to use. >carrot2 I use the meta search engine but it's much better for getting information

https://www.qwant.com/ It's OK.

>Yippy Pretty decent index and search. Gets lesser known sites. >millionshort.com I need to use this more. The idea is to remove the most popular mainstream sites, allowing you to see the esoteric stuff. >private.sh This is a privacy-enhancing proxy for the old school engine Gigablast. Also need to use this more. It looks like their index has improved a lot since the last time I used it. >Yandex Another decent alternative. You get to be tracked by Russians instead of Americans. >Mojeek Kind of bad, results are always full of blogspam but you might run across something interesting. Don't forget about searching sites directly. Depending on the topics you're interested in, searching e.g. Twitter, Github, Pubmed, or Libgen directly may get more useful results than a web search. >>33677 Qwant is mostly just Bing underneath. >>33671 Startpage is supposed to be mostly a proxy for Google. Works better on Tor than Google does.

>>33679 With links so you don't have to use Google, including Petey Vid for video search https://mojeek.com https://yippy.com https://private.sh https://yandex.com https://millionshort.com https://peteyvid.com

>>33679 I want to really like a Million Short but too broken ATM.

>>33679 Also Yandex is not bad. Libgen is usually where I get my info these days.

>>33671 Source on the startpage statement please?

>>33687 >>33679 Yandex captchas you if you run noscript or sometimes if you are american.

>>33663 SearX is excellent. I think everyone should just focus their efforts on continuing to improve it, and hosting instances.

>>33679 >millionshort.com thats amazing thnks

>>33701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577 https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-startpage/

>>33786 Well, soykaf. That is like kicking dead whales down the beach. Looks like I won't be using !s any more. :-\

>>33786 >>33790 Reading further, it seems like they addressed the concerns: https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/ So looks like I will be using !s.

>>33761 Isn't Searx just a proxy and aggregator for other search engines? It's a cool concept but I haven't seen any instances that do anything creative with metasearch, as opposing to just proxying DDG/Bing and Wikipedia. By creative I mean mixing together some of these alternative search engines, or coming up with a unique ranking strategy. My other concern: From a social standpoint and a security capacity standpoint, it seems like your search logs from some random guy's Searx instance are more likely to be leaked than from DDG or similar.

Thanks to this thread I added some more: https://www.are.na/the-curator/alternate-search-engines-f6j6q8ebt5e

>>33804 FilePursuit seems really nice. If we're being exhaustive there is also Exalead at https://www.exalead.com/search/web/

YaCy is decent, self-hosted search engine. Language filtering has been in development. This is the only one that gives you serverside search engine code to run on a local machine.

>>33792 nah, it's an implementation

>>33812 It's a metasearch engine. It aggregates from all the search engines, and is probably the most privacy friendly way to use a search engine, given you trust the server host, and the server host as a reasonable amount of people on it.

>>33761 i saw npm and already knew it was crap but i tried it anyways aaand i was right. yep, thise is total garbage - most things do not work without js (lol) - a lot of them are down or have been captcha walled by google this is about as effective a ie4 aol search bar plugin

i use lilo because the money from the data collected goes into the charity/association I want when I want to be anonymous I use TORCH or DuckDuckGo

Been using mostly swisscow and searx for few months now . and they're both good but swisscow is a little nicer . i dont really care about my personal privacy as i dont ise the internet for personal things that much but where i live if i searched about some things in google its a sure thing that m gonne get fuarked by my government by fuarking america or france orders . Also i fuarked up by using google photos and now they have my face .

If you care about actual freedom, stay away from SearX, as it just is a meta-search engine. YaCy has its own crawler and seems to be improving. t. DuckDuckGo user who can't afford a VPS

> If you care about actual freedom, stay away from Searx, as it just is a meta-search engine. It's true that it's a meta search engine. You can self host it and use it as proxy to duckduckgo or any other engine for that matter. The benefit of this being that you can run a log-less instance of Searx and have your family use it. Duckduckgo would only see your VPS and not the individual users requests. That's a step closer towards digital privacy. It's a good search engine, don't get me wrong, but I'm not going to put blind trust into duckduckgo just because "we ain't google".

>>33663 https://boardreader.com/ Very cool concept but I've found there is a lot of redundancy in the search results. You can also do a regular google search, with the string ‘inurl:forum|viewthread|showthread|viewtopic|showtopic|”index.php?topic” | intext:”reading this topic”|”next thread”|”next topic”|”send private message”‘. in the url to only get forum posts.

>>33663 https://usearch.com/

>>35347 >You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. fuarrrk off

I have used for more than a year and am currently using Ecosia as my primary search engine (DuckDuckGo as secondary). URL: https://www.ecosia.org/ https://info.ecosia.org/about In short, the goal of the Berlin-based search engine is to be carbon neutral and generate income through sponsored results that is used to plant trees and self-sustain the project. Every month they release financial reports of the income earned new trees planted. A mini-community is also part of the package, which includes a podcast and the usual set of social media pages. The downside is that the results are downstream from Bing and that (personal opinion) the results load slower. I also miss DDG's instant currency conversion ("0.27 btc to eur") and the cheat sheets for tmux, vim, etc

After going through this thread I started using Yippy. So far I like it.

>>35628 >plant trees >yet be against c02, ie what trees breath how can they be so retarded? More c02=more trees, space sat pics have proven this is happening, the earth is getting greener fuarrrk out of here with your eco soiboi bullshit

>>35639 >more CO2 => oxygen concentration is lower >CO2 concentration at an all time high >O2 concentration at an all time low >humans breath oxygen >tree concentration at an all time low >for some fuarrrking reason there are more human beings on this planet than at any point in history >less O2 = more humans? they have truly played us for fools

>>33663 Gibiru works pretty well afaik: https://gibiru.com/ and if their claims are true it is pretty dope, can't confirm though.

>>35641 Humans are rather resilient to oxygen rarefaction. As should be obvious by the fact high-altitude mountain communities exist and have existed for literally millennia.

>>35639 Planting trees takes time to make a dent in the CO2 levels; if people around the globe plant at least one tree, levels could drop with additional 25% in a few decades. This, combined with reduced CO2 usage can delay the adverse effects of global warming, which we well into these days if you haven't ventured outside. I don't understand where your affinity to CO2 is relevant to the conversation. Additional efforts could be more costly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering#Carbon_dioxide_removal I don't consider myself a tree-hugger, but my father was a forest ranger, so I grew up and climbed a lot of mountains in my area.