Been off G for years, then DDG, then Startpage, now trying Kagi. I like the idea of paid search. What are y'all using?
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Been off G for years, then DDG, then Startpage, now trying Kagi. I like the idea of paid search. What are y'all using?
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Good stuff as usual, David. Thank you for curating privacy related content!
np, curating is the easy bit. Testing & writing guides is the tricky part.
I'm still stuck on 2nd base with DuckDuckGo. Been really frustrated with the flaws of all search though. Really looking forward to more privacy-minded AI discovery.
Search just feels so fake and flawed in 2024, when a simple search term can't find the exact article, which you know should be at your fingertips.
Search for hunter Biden laptop
I’d rather not.. 😂 think I’ll pass on that
Big tech and social media lost all credibility in 2020 with election interference
Use Kagi and sign up with a random email for 100 free searches
Duck 🦆 go and brave
I stopped using DDG when they sold out to Microsoft. It was a shame as it was a good browser.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/
Not sure about its privacy, it claims not to track you, but I enjoy the results returns on SERPs from Qwant
Kagi FTW
best you can so is reduce search engine usage.
wanna go SN? don't write "stacker news" on your search engine. this practice not only reduces privacy but also security (as it makes it more likely to land on phishing sites). use bookmarks. remember a few URLs
Use anything but use it via tor ❗
It's definitely one of those areas which still need to evolve a lot. 'Search with complete privacy and better results' are emerging but they need to understand they are competing with a dinaus of this segment. G is so big that it won't go away easily, also it's free (as far as most people believe, but I don't). Paying for search isn't a better market strategy, as you first need to spread your wing before you fly.
I just discovered Mojeek, a british SE that is absolutely adamant about no tracking nor even ads. Not as bad results as you'd think they are.
https://www.mojeek.com
https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/mojeek.com
Good recommendation. DDG doesn't crawl the web and is essentially beholden to Bing results. Brave seem to crawl but not with a user agent that respects robots.txt. They also scrape Google to enrich their results, so queries that user's do within the realm of their web discovery project are sent along to Google, which may include PII.
Mojeek is a traditional crawler that crawls the web and honours robots.txt. Beyond Google and Bing, it's probably the next largest (and useful) index in the Western World.
Kagi. 😎
Privacy for sure,but what is kagi!!
I used
[whoogle][1]
- cool software but rate-limiting was an issue.[1]: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search