I've recently switched away from #DuckDuckGo and migrated to:
It's a meta-search engine that mixes your queries with other queries and sends them to a handful of other search engines.
You get fast results from highly specific search engines (Google, Erowid, Archive.is, Soundcloud, YouTube, all the good ones) without actually sending them your real query.
I love it.
@christianbundy I've been using DuckDuckGo for a while now (after having issues with StartPage); but I'll definitely be checking this out!
@afarian @christianbundy tbh I used DDG and then switched to StartPage.
DDG is more polished but StartPage runs their own servers. DDG is hosged on amazon infrastructure
@saxnot @christianbundy I only moved to DDG from SP because SP wouldn't resolve searches for several days at one point. Can't use an engine that's not up :(
@afarian @christianbundy that's true.
SP hasn't disappointer me yet.
But who knows what fruit the future will bring
@christianbundy Thanks -- I will try it out.
@Matt_Noyes @christianbundy
try it! I'm also a fan of it. And there's also an instance of it run by someone on mastodon, unfortunately the https certificate expired recently..
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@christianbundy there are different places that hos searx instances too
@christianbundy super interesting, thanks for sharing!
@christianbundy i tried a bit but it was difficult to find things...maybe my approach was wrong?
Also DDG bangs are sooo useful...
for a brief i tried also FindX ( https://www.findx.com/ ) do you ever heard of it?
@silkevicious Which DDG bangs did you use the most often?
FindX looks pretty, but I haven't seen it deployed by anyone else. I'll have to check it out a bit deeper!
@christianbundy mostly !gt (google translator) and !m or !osm (google maps/openstreetmaps)...
Rarely !g !gi (google and google images) and !a (amazon)
@silkevicious I don't think we have Google Translate, but !osm, !go, and !goi should work fine.
You should be able to see them in:
Preferences > Engines
@christianbundy Oh now it's more clear... i'll give it a second chance then! Thank you! 😉
@christianbundy @silkevicious !wa !duden !alt !urban !w !wde
@christianbundy Also try searx.laquadrature.net which is hosted by the French internet privacy action group on their site. #Searx #duckduckgo #LaQuadratureduNet
@christianbundy ... and #Wikidata, #Wikipedia... Thank you for the pointer!
@christianbundy how exactly does it not send your query?
Afaik SearX just searches for you and then ranks the results for you
@saxnot Sorry, I mean that it doesn't send your query from your IP address and browser and network stack.
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances