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The default view is a bit overloaded in my opinion...
Lite version: https://lite.qwant.com/
A plus point is that qwant also supports hashbangs like duckduckgo.
European here. First of all, this is okay. But not good. I've tried several "slang" searches that google gets just fine. I've tried these because ddg had/has problems with them for a long time. E.g. If I google for "poe shavs" (a slang term for an item with an abbreviation of the game name), I expect https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Shavronne%27s_Wrappings from what I've tried this seems to work even without a searc…
The thing is, Google improves its results THANKS to its privacy invasion. To understand "poe" as path of exile, it helps to know that you at least once searched for path of exile. After it has seen a few hundreds users do that, it will make the connection. To know that "poe shavs" refers to the game and not Edgar Alan Poe, it probably had to provide a link to a relevant author's name and to the game's page and watch…
Will they censor results like EU has been forcing Google to do?
You mean, follow the law? Yes. Shocking, isn't it?
Does anyone actually want the government of France Germany or Turkey deciding what websites you are allowed to visit?
Why not put all the servers in a location that actually respects freedom and not censor anything AND not track us? That would be something I would be interested in. The whole concept of geo-restricted anything is a ridiculous antithesis to what the internet is supposed to be.
European here. First of all, this is okay. But not good. I've tried several "slang" searches that google gets just fine. I've tried these because ddg had/has problems with them for a long time. E.g. If I google for "poe shavs" (a slang term for an item with an abbreviation of the game name), I expect https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Shavronne%27s_Wrappings from what I've tried this seems to work even without a searc…
The thing is, Google improves its results THANKS to its privacy invasion. To understand "poe" as path of exile, it helps to know that you at least once searched for path of exile. After it has seen a few hundreds users do that, it will make the connection. To know that "poe shavs" refers to the game and not Edgar Alan Poe, it probably had to provide a link to a relevant author's name and to the game's page and watch…
However, it's becoming useless for infrequent searches. Try googling any random error message and notice 90% of the results don't even contain it.
After like 2 searches I got:
A high amount of connections have been detected from your location and you have been blocked.Please, validate the anti-robot below to be allowed access to the website.
I never understand log in on a search engine. I'm supplying keywords to search for, please don't try to profile and put me in a bubble. After like 2 searches I got: A high amount of connections have been detected from your location and you have been blocked.Please, validate the anti-robot below to be allowed access to the website.
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The thing is, Google improves its results THANKS to its privacy invasion. To understand "poe" as path of exile, it helps to know that you at least once searched for path of exile. After it has seen a few hundreds users do that, it will make the connection. To know that "poe shavs" refers to the game and not Edgar Alan Poe, it probably had to provide a link to a relevant author's name and to the game's page and watch…
If users search for "poe" and can't find anything, some of them will search for "path of exile" next. You'd probably only need to look at request k and request k+1 to figure it out eventually.
Google is really good at that. I can't use DDG for programming because DDG thinks I want to learn more about Elm trees.
Will they censor results like EU has been forcing Google to do?
Based in EU, I can't see how they wouldn't. I don't want censored search.
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...
many privacy search engines like duckduckgo really just query bing or google (sometimes through a proxy)... any idea if qwant does this?
The auto-completions are also very limited, no long tail suggestions at all.
They also seem to use Elasticsearch from looking at their job postings, but mostly the focus for hiring seems to be on front-end and scripting.