Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bing it is then. I hate Microsoft with the intensity of thousand suns but bing is now my jam as long as this lasts.
I’ve started a Kagi subscription for my new search engine. Basically $6 USD per month but because it’s a user-pay model they have a really good privacy policy and don’t sell/analyze your data.
It’s currently better than Google (which I still use search in the maps for reviews)
You could give SearXNG a try. It’s open source, you can host it yourself, and it has no ads or tracking. Most other search engines (including DuckDuckGo) make their income from ads, that alone makes them untrustworthy in my book. I’m using searxng.online and it works good enough.
Thanks I couldn’t remember the name of this.
This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hours. It requires Javascript until the issue #9 is fixed.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Try duckduckgo
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bing by any other name is still bing.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
At best this is as intelligent as saying Google Maps is YouTube by another name because they’re both on Google servers. Even that would be smarter to say actually, because Google Maps and YouTube are owned by the same company.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
When bing goes down so does duckduckgo but somehow your apples to oranges argument is somehow comparative.
SuperiorOne@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
DuckDuckGo also uses Bing under the hood.