• Driveway4964@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    For those looking for some Google alternatives:

    • Qwant has a custom indexing strategy and is okay
    • Brave Search ~uses Google and Bing~ EDIT: they use a custom index too
    • Startpage uses Google and Bing and it’s prettier than Brave IMO
    • SearX is ugly but has a lot of sources
    • Perplexity AI tracks the shit out of you but it’s decent
    • Kagi is customizable but it costs you

    Feel free to add on any I missed or opinions on these; I haven’t used any extensively

    EDIT: Ecosia for trees and DDG for Bing without ads

    • wieson@feddit.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Ecosia uses the money they generate with ads to plant trees 🌿 (I think it’s bing on the backend)

    • kaputter Aimbot@feddit.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users’ privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO ‘SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge’ and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer’s own control. In September 2013, MetaGer launched MetaGer.net, an English-language version of their search engine.

      Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer

      It currently supports the following languages/regions:

      Dansk (Danmark)

      Deutsch (Österreich/Schweiz/Deutschland)

      English (Great Britain/Ireland/Malaysia/USA)

      Español (España/México)

      Suomalainen (Suomi)

      Français (Canada/France)

      Italiano (Italia)

      Nederlands (Nederland)

      Polski (Polska)

      Svenska (Sverige)

      Source: https://metager.org/lang

      There is a TOR-hidden service too:

      https://metager.org/tor

      It is open source:

      https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer

      And has other useful features, for example:

      […] you can hide yourself behind our proxyserver just by opening the result anonymously? Use “OPEN ANONYMOUSLY”; this also affects the following links.

      Source: https://metager.org/tips

      Alternatively I use some SearxNG-instances, preferably hosted in the EU:

      https://searx.space