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Both the website and the GitHub are top two results at my end, in India.
Not anymore. I'm also using it in India, the original website is no longer listed. Top result is the repo
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Searx. Use Searx. Does your search engine of choice fail to get results that the others pick up? Searx grabs all of them and compiles them together. Don't miss another search result! Also, proxying increases privacy. Also, it's open source and self-hostable.
Being open source doesn't mean the people running the public searx instances aren't tracking you. Self-hosting makes you lose all the benefits of proxying. In the end be it ddg or searx you can only rely on some third-party trust.
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I used them nearly exclusively and recommended them to all my friends. Once they started censoring content for political reasons (Ukraine), that ended instantly.
The whole point of a search engine is curation, and excluding garbage or in the case of Russia/Ukraine, making willful misinformation less prominent is an act of curation. A search engine is largely two things: (1) crawling and discovering all available resources (2) parsing a user’s request for a resource of some kind and providing the user with a means of accessing “best matches” This process is inherently, unequiv…
Unfortunately it seems that in 90%+ of cases "willful misinformation" is just anything that contradicts the political views of the democrat-leaning Google management.
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The whole point of a search engine is curation, and excluding garbage or in the case of Russia/Ukraine, making willful misinformation less prominent is an act of curation. A search engine is largely two things: (1) crawling and discovering all available resources (2) parsing a user’s request for a resource of some kind and providing the user with a means of accessing “best matches” This process is inherently, unequiv…
> The whole point of a search engine is curation, and excluding garbage or in the case of Russia/Ukraine, making willful misinformation less prominent is an act of curation. Unfortunately it seems that in 90%+ of cases "willful misinformation" is just anything that contradicts the political views of the democrat-leaning Google management.
Question: does anyone actually know what DDG does with user data? Like they market themselves as a "privacy respecting" search engine, but how much of this is truth? I'd imagine there's good money in convincing people they have privacy because then they'll provide more interesting data. Has the company ever been audited? Why should they be trusted to not compromise user privacy? Imo at least Google is honest: you kno…
> Question: does anyone actually know what DDG does with user data? Like they market themselves as a "privacy respecting" search engine, but how much of this is truth? It doesn't matter. Why? Because when going through the exercise of identifying risks in the system one can't assume the actors are benevolent and won't ever use the access+data they have for evil. That's not at all to say all actors are evil and will a…
Another syndication partner of Microsoft is far more transparent in their privacy policy than Duck: "Bing: IP address (obfuscated), user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting. We never communicate IP addresses along with search queries. We only send IP addresses to Microsoft in obfuscated form, meaning we remove parts of the IP address when we sent it."
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I always wondered the specifics of their deal with Microsoft regarding the use of bing index. Guess we will never know.
What specifics? Wouldn’t they just pay MS for access to the API (though with some special volume discount that won’t be public)?
Unfortunately, Bing (and thus DDG) removes proper websites from their index for unknown reasons, without any way to get this sorted out [0]. My blog (10 years, no spam content) has been delisted for 2 months now. The Bing webmaster tools don't display any error. After using DDG for 2-3 years, both as my main search engine and as OpenSearch for my blog, I had to switch back to Google. [0] https://techcommunity.microso…
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I'd be objecting anyone that gets paid to produce cultural pollution. Are you getting paid to produce cultural pollution?
Nearly all of classical music was sponsored by and produced for wealthy patrons. Is that cultural pollution too?
I'm sure back in the day, Salzburg people were also rolling their eye about yet another Requiem.
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> So now I was wondering if DDG is getting into the tracking business Anecdotal of course, but I've been seeing more and more DDG billboards. Those things aren't cheap, and my trust in them has declined the more I see them advertise in the traditional market.
So where does one from here for everyday search? Google is out. Bing has many of the same problems as Google. Startpage blocks my VPN. Brave has always felt just a little "off" to me, but maybe they're worth a try. Any others I've missed that are worth looking into?