What's your choice of search engine these days for those who care a bit more about privacy? I'm trying to get away from Google as much as I can and came across Startpage but don't know much on the technicalities on whether it's actually screwing me or not. I know duckduckgo is a popular alternative but I consistently hear about how the search results are kind of just ass nowadays (as a consequence of piggybacking off of Bing). What do you use as a good balance between functional searching and privacy?
>>106455825yandexactually, idc abt muh privoocy, i just keep personal info to myselfi go to yandex bc western search engines are cucked beyond usabilityfrom your standpoint, ruskis aint gonna share user data with the west. i think.
>>106455846Yeah, sadly Yandex is shit as well from a technical standpoint. It struggled to give good results (for different reason than Google to be fair) and has very few working search operators. Its only advantage is that, last I checked, they didn't care about DMCA takedowns. But that could change at any moment, destroying their only advantage.
>>106455825qwant
>>106455871>but that could change at any moment, destroying their only advantage.im not sure about thati vaguely remember putin saying something about not enforcing western ip rights as part of the response to sanctionsyadex is pretty good for dirt on western countries toobut to be honest i use chud gpt for my searches now99% of these are tech related anywayslike i said, i dont provide much in the way of information that could help marketingroids dress a profile for me
>>106455896What did you just call me?
>>106455825GoogleEverything else has shit search results
ddg, does its job good enough for me, also bing is far less restrictive than google
>>106455986
>>106455825Startpage and DDG do their job well enough, but SearXNG is my favorite and probably the most private (assuming you're self-hosting).
>>106455825SearX
>>106455825my own yacy instance hosted on my server accessed from a rpi running an nginx webserver that also links all my network services.
>>106455825I just use DDG. I find the results acceptable.
>>106455942ChatGPT lies, just like Google Gemini. It’s not even build for search engine optimization either. The AI will lie to make you believe it’s smart and earn imaginary points for keeping up the lying.
>>106457228use 4get
>>106455825for me, it's kagi
Mullvad Leta
>>106455825Google.
>>106455871Use qwant, i also use yandex
I think CCleaner has one
>>106455896it's great, the only downside is it's slightly slower than competitors, and you have to add an addblock rule for the "install our app" banner, but worth it for no AI garbage
>>1064558254get (D0T) cait kinda sucks and forces you to do a captcha every time but the captcha consists of clicking on images of either minecraft screenshots, birds or fumos and i like seeing birds and fumos from time to timealso you can select what search engine you want to useadd more fumos btw if you see this dev
>>106459242>it kinda sucks and forces you to do a captcha every timeevery day* sorry
