DDG is for-profit and serves for the most part Bing results. Why not pick something truly open, like search.marginalia.nu?
Unfortunately my search engine is far away, both in terms of functionality and hardware capacity from being able to deal with that. Maybe some day, who knows, but not yet. Even if I'm destined to make the Linux of search engines, we're metaphorically living in 1992 or so.
Would be funny though because it's both developed on a Debian workstation and hosted on a Debian server.
Do you have any stance there? (I'm not saying you should have one or agree with mine, just curious. Every search engine might have its time and place).
That said I do block some sites, mostly nazi stuff if it's designed in such a way that it crops up in regular searches. It's a fairly small number of sites though.
You can check if a site is blacklisted using a site:-search like
I see this sentiment a lot lately and it seems weird to me that since narratives don’t need to have an inch a truth to be constructed. Narratives can be fabricated from made up atoms if need be . If crackpots wants to believe they’re being prosecuted , they’ll do it anyway. The ammunition you fear you’ll give them is one they already possess if they’re already too far gone.
I worry about the sustainability of such a service though. Don’t they inevitably get blocked upstream?
It might work better for more local organizations to host such projects. I’ve always liked the idea of community centers and churches and whatnot hosting shared services for their community.
What’s the problem? What matters is that my searches aren’t recorded and added to a profile.
What would we have Debian change the default search to? I get that DuckDuckGo might not be ideal, but it is better than Google, Bing, Yahoo or Marginalia. The results need to be good enough, but also not obviously anti-privacy. It basically leave you with DuckDuckGo, Qwants or Ecosia. Personally I might had picked Ecosia, had they not had a cookie banner.