Privacy Search Engines

knfrmity , 11 months ago

I can't recommend a self hosted SearXNG instance enough.

DDG uses Bing as a search backend last I checked, and the founder/CEO is spoke in favour of censoring search results that don't match with his worldview.

authed , 11 months ago

How can a privacy-focused search engine block Tor? You probably should remove those.

pumpkin , 11 months ago

Agreed, it feels like it's a strong signal they don't take privacy seriously.

shreddy_scientist , 11 months ago

Maybe add ecosia.org to the list, definitely a privacy focused search engine.

kixik , 11 months ago

searx and searxng are not search engines, and searx is more private (searxng collects info from users, which searx never wanted to). AFAIK duckduckgo is neither a search engine on its own, it uses blink...

nof4n OP , 11 months ago

To tell the truth, only yacy and sightnet have own index(database).
Others are meta-search engines. They work like proxy. It's called meta search. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine)

0xCAFE , 11 months ago

Mojeek has it's own index. DuckDuckGo, Qwant and Brave have a partial index mixed with meta search results.