- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Essentially saying that due to seo spam and commercialization, Google is now useless for search and more and more people do site:reddit.com.
I think it’s a little extreme but agree generally.
I think it’s generally a good sign for a searcher’s privacy, if you look at the adressbar and the search url that shows up and also shows up like that in the history.
For example, if I search with Andi, Whoogle and other search engines that respect privacy, regardless of what I search, only
https://searchengine/search
appears in the adressbar and in the history, in all others apearshttps://searchengine/search/object of the search
which also later apears in the history.Searching Lemmy With Brave search in the adressbar and history
https://search.brave.com/search?q=lemmy
Same search with Whoogle
https://whoogle.sdf.org/search
In Andi only apears the url of the Andisearch
https://andisearch.com
With Metager apart of the item, apear the config code
https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=lemmy&submit-query=&focus=web
All these respect privacy and only stores the history locally, but its better when the search item don’t apear in the history, because of this, Whoogle, Andi and Startpage are those which I use most, Metager, DDG and others only in occasions to contrast some information.