Mojeek is a privacy-friendly English search engine. Unlike DuckDuckGo, Mojeek has its own index.
Unfortunately, the UK has a terrible track record with privacy. I guess the architecture has to be good
I don’t know why anyone looking for privacy would use a search engine based in the 5 eyes countries. Terrible idea
Surprisingly Switzerland doesn’t appear in many of these organizations, but France does…
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Qwant is French and indexes their own stuff, with a small portion pulled from Bing. It is my preferred choice and daily driver. On utmost rare occasions, once a month, I might use Startpage for Google results.
Start relying less on search engines, and try to bookmark your favourite sites so that you rely less on search engines in the first place. Minimises tracking on you.
Here is something nice you all can refer to: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/search.html#summary
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The problem is, Bing and Google are kings of web crawling and aggregation of search results. And a third party can never match upto them due to lack of monetary capital and infrastructure. Therefore one has to rely on their results, whilst minimising tracking on you.
I research a lot, and that is how I get things done without using Google dot com or Bing dot com.
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The data points on me are minimal, and I rarely if ever use it. I have already achieved negligible usage.
I hate using it, as
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Regarding Qwant, you can suggest them to add it, there’s a link to a form on the page.
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Cool. There’s also lite.qwant.com if you’re out and about on your phone and low on data, or just want a faster experience. You’re welcome.
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I like the ddg bangs too but I’m weaning myself off them, instead using keywords in Firefox. It’s really easy: just right-click (ctrl-click on Mac?) on a search field then select “Add keyword for this search”.
Especially since they started removing (censoring…?) bangs for the likes of Sci-Hub and torrent sites, and since I got thinking that perhaps they don’t need to know a history of all my searches on all the websites.
https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-site-bangs-to-avoid-liability-181203/
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So, reading up on it at duckduckgo I see that they have their own crawler and also incorporate other search results
we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).
And regarding privacy:
As per our strict privacy policy, we never share any personal information with any of our partners. The way it works is when we call a partner for information, it is proxied through our servers so it stays completely anonymous.
