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I've used Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Gibiru, etc. - all of them are either shit or they just search Google/Bing on the backend and present you with the results for "privacy."

Why is it so nearly impossible for an independent company to put together their own search engine similar to Yahoo in the 90's? Hell, I would gladly take 1990's Yahoo technology today over the bells and whistles of propaganda Google and Bing today.

I just searched vaccine deaths on DuckDuckGo and it's nothing but "FACT CHECK" bullshit at the top. DuckDuckGo is absolute shit. What are the real alternatives? Are they all being murdered when they try to start up a search engine?

At this point Yandex seems to be the only search that isn't biased about US politics. But c'mon, we shouldn't have to use Kremlin search to be able to search the internet.

I've used Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Gibiru, etc. - all of them are either shit or they just search Google/Bing on the backend and present you with the results for "privacy." Why is it so nearly impossible for an independent company to put together their own search engine similar to Yahoo in the 90's? Hell, I would gladly take 1990's Yahoo technology today over the bells and whistles of propaganda Google and Bing today. I just searched vaccine deaths on DuckDuckGo and it's nothing but "FACT CHECK" bullshit at the top. DuckDuckGo is absolute shit. What are the real alternatives? Are they all being murdered when they try to start up a search engine? At this point Yandex seems to be the only search that isn't biased about US politics. But c'mon, we shouldn't have to use Kremlin search to be able to search the internet.

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[–] • 7 pts

The open source project Searx is coming along. Here is one of the better/stable instances:

https://search.mdosch.de

https://github.com/searx/searx

[–] • 4 pts

Very serendipitous, I just started researching setting up my own search stack. I'd like to give this a shot this week

[–] • 2 pts

I usually go with searx.xyz because its easier for most people.

[–] • 1 pt

Thanks, I'll check it out. Looks like I didn't get "fact checked" when I searched for something that's commonly censored just now.