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This was posted in another thread, but I'd never seen it before. French-made.

Results seem just as good as Google, PutLocker searchers work, and it's as privacy-respecting as DDG. I've been using it all day and I'm happy with the results, so I thought I'd share.

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It's just a front for Bing.

The company is pure hype, no results.

Someone should make a Medium post about how to make your own privacy focused search engine using Bing's API.

lol you're right. The results are identical.

Searching "python merge dict", I would consider the correct answer this StackOverflow post (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38987/how-do-i-merge-two...). Qwant puts it second. Bing places it very near the bottom of the page.

It's a bit more than just hype: it's rebranding Bing results to make them more palatable to a EU audience, while guzzling on public subsidies to pretend it's a EU unicorn and gather support from nationalists.

There are actual results - as a public subsidies scam!

>while guzzling on public subsidies to pretend it's a EU unicorn and gather support from nationalists.

This seems like a weird accusation given that government VC arms like In-Q-Tel or institutions like DARPA invest heavily in Silicon Valley tech firms, not to mention that the national science foundation supported the development of pagerank itself[1]. One of Apple's first investors was the Small Business Investment Company, an investment arm of the federal government. The EU would be stupid to not support the development of an independent technology sector.

[1]https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660

I have a better one:

https://infinitySearch.Co

It's Open-source, it's a search engine (they have their own crawler and their own index) and it's private!!!

The slashes after the colon should be forward slashes (/) rather than backslashes (\).

WT...?! How the did I do that?!?!

I mean: I've developed websites... What the was in my head?!

LOL

THANKS for not letting me look like a dumb for too much long

Seems like a cool search engine but wish they didn't go so heavy on the box shadows

Looking at their repos, it seems it’s mostly metasearch. Only crawler I see is specifically for news.

I’d be curious to hear if anyone self hosted this and searx and how they compare.

I self-host SearX, and so can you. Its fairly easy with Docker [1]. However via self-hosting you don't get the anonymity benefits from their upstream (Bing, Yandex, whatever else you enable) which you do get via a public SearX. But with a public SearX instance you don't get the privacy benefits from that instance (ie. all searches can be traced to you).

So I end up using both public and self-hosted SearX, DDG, and Google as last resort.

[1] https://github.com/searx/searx-docker

Yeah, it's already on my bucket list, asking because Qwant looks self-hostable as well :)

Still some privacy benefits in not having physical location tied to searches, and an instance can be shared with friends and family.

I have been using it for many months and prefer it to DDG. Haven't used Goo in years!

not really... https://i.imgur.com/fUTOkP6.png

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