I’m currently working on re-evaluating our search engine selection (reading privacy policies and all that good stuff), to see what to keep, remove, maybe add. I figured I might use some input from lemmy.

  • what do you use out of the ones we include? is anyone actually using search engines like qwant and metager?
  • do you add any search engine to librewolf?

if you’re curious bout my notes on this -> https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/issues/111

  • @fishonthenetOPM
    2•2 years ago

    for evaluation of privacy policy and practices of each search engine you can see the link in OP, I’m done evaluating all of them. Startpage and Brave search actually came out cleaner than Qwant, but overall all of the evaluated ones are very much above average.

    I think Startpage main advantage is that it’s a Google alternative, and atm it seems like a more viable one than Whoogle, which we tried to push instead. Brave and Searx are cool, I don’t see much added value that justifies including them by default (if one likes the results just add it manually), so if we were to trim some stuff I would consider them honestly, but I’m not sure either.