I was using DuckDuckGo for some time, but heard that there are better alternatives. I’m confused, because DDG is used by default in TOR browser, and other privacy respecting browsers (ex. Librewolf). Can you guys recommend any other search engine, and tell me why u recommend it?
Or, is DDG enough?
I use DuckDuckGo at home, but at work it’s blocked. I’ve argued for it to be unblocked but to no avail. I use Startpage at work because it appears to have the same results as Google but also lets you view images anonymously when possible.
I’ve heard of Startpage (which appears to be a frontend for Google results), but I personally like Brave Search more (visually, also you have !bangs for quickly searching wikipedia, ddg or startpage when you need it). I heard ecosia should be private, buy I’ve been ciritical and didn’t look into it yet, because its main focus appears to be planting trees.
I’ve looked into ecosia and they store IPs for a week to “protect ourselves from spammers”. They encrypt your searches, use Bing for results and ads, but they filter the “annoying” ones. I think they are pretty good overall.
Wow I’ve been using Brave search for a while now and had no idea bangs were a thing. It’d be nice if there was more ways to showcase them visually to help discover this nifty feature
I came from ddg, so I just assumed / tried and they worked :D
Kagi.
Go to https://searx.space and enjoy (one of these instances is mine).
I host an instance of searxng and I am quite happy with it. It displays results of a combination of engines. If you want to spin up your own, I have a blog that explains how to do in basic steps : https://mustafacanyucel.com/blog/blog-13.html
I believe the reason for ddg in tor use may be related to an announcement they made about having an onion address available. So your searches don’t go through an exit node.
My memory may be failing here and I haven’t tested it, but thought I’d mention that
I forgot to mention, it gives you Google results without tracking, or any ads.
Can Farside be used for the browser search box or do you mean visit Farside as a one-time thing to find an instance?
I’m not sure I’m following, so I’ll answer the question for both of the ways I can interpret that question.
If you mean to use
site:operator in your <favorite-search-engine>, I don’t think you can.You can use it to choose your instance once, but why not to always use it?
You can use it in the URL bar. Except the domain itself, the rest of the URL is remaining the same.
https://gооglе.соm/search?q=nyan cat would become https://farside.link/whoogle/search?q=nyan cat.
(You can do https://search.garudalinux.org/search?q=nyan cat, but Farside is fantastic.)
Whoa that’s awesome! Think this might be a better solution than LibRedirect for me.
