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JayVii

@parismarx hey, I listened to the System Crash episode from May 23rd yesterday (a little bit behind on my podcasts...), where at some point you briefly talk about search engines you have been trying out, including ecosia and qwant.

Not sure, what else you have tried, so I thought maybe I just throw in two that I have experiemented with and had great success. Perhaps you already know them. But those were not mentioned in the podcast. Until the european Open Search Index is ready, there unfortunately is no perfect solution, but meta-search engines have been the best compromise for me personally until then.

Obviously you still rely on big tech to some extent, but at least you diversify the reliance a little bit. Sometimes, this also takes the form of competitive compatibility, which is a notion I really like towards big tech.

#SearX/#SearXng is of course great and extremely customizable, open source and self hostable (for trying out, here is a German provider: https://gruble.de/).

Personally, I have been using #MetaGer, a German meta search engine, for quite a while now. I like the minimal and brutalist-esque UI of it. For me,  it just gets the job done for me, both in my personal life and in my academic life. A little disclaimer here: MetaGer is run by a German NGO, which I joined as a passive member a few months back, because I really like their mission. They also plan to create a new search engine, entirely based on the Open Search Index, called "nolm" (no LLM), which will also find its way as a search provider into MetaGer.

I do have some little gripes with MetaGer, which I remedied with my own flimsy solution stacked on top of it, which provides me with a similar feature like DDG's "Bangs".

Anyways, thanks for the great podcast and this episode in particular, which was very entertaining.

gruble.deGrubleSearXNG — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine
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Jérôme Herbinet | FLOSS

💡 Très intéressante vidéo de @lecrivainsf sur les moteurs de recherche alternatifs à #Google. Bien qu'aucun ne soit parfait, ils existent et les utiliser à la place de Google contribue à effriter au gré du temps l'hégémonie du géant américain. Gwên revient d'abord sur ce que sont les moteurs indépendants, les méta-moteurs et les moteurs hybrides. Puis elle décrit et donne son ressenti sur #Qwant, #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage, #SearX / #SearXNG, #YaCy, #Brave et #Mojeek. #GAFAM
peertube.iriseden.eu/w/cpTW1kH

PeerTubeLes moteurs de recherche alternatifs (v2)By Gwên
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:gnu:Hacker

@slashdot I myself use a #Searx instance and #Qwant.

After all these years any improvement in information retrieval algorithms is marginal. Some of the latest changes in Google are even counterproductive.

Bing is not any better and still isn't free software, backed by another monopoly.

Miguel Afonso Caetano

"tl;dr
Já podes fazer as tuas pesquisas online no nosso meta-motor de pesquisa, disponível em: searx.direitosdigitais.pt

Os motores de pesquisa são uma ferramenta imprescindível no nosso quotidiano. Seja por motivos pessoais ou profissionais, todos recorremos a estes recursos com regularidade. No entanto, a sua utilização também tem um lado negro, especialmente a nível da privacidade. Quantas vezes não perguntamos ao Google questões que não nos atrevemos a perguntar a mais ninguém? Toda essa informação pode ser usada para traçar um perfil rigoroso com os nossos gostos, objectivos, ideologias ou desejos mais íntimos.

Um perfil que é usado para nos manipular. As pesquisas que fazemos ficam registadas em histórico nos servidores desses motores de pesquisa e servem para nos apresentar publicidade personalizada, tanto na página de resultados, como noutros sítios que visitamos. Nesses anúncios, os nossos dados pessoais, incluindo dados sensíveis, são comunicados a milhares de empresas, sem qualquer respeito pela privacidade e protecção de dados. Bem-vindos ao capitalismo de vigilância.

Foi com estas preocupações em mente que, na D3, decidimos que estava na altura de fazer algo para contribuir para uma navegação mais privada e ajudar a desmerdificar um pouco a Internet."

direitosdigitais.pt/noticias/1

direitosdigitais.ptD3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais - D3 disponibiliza motor de pesquisa respeitador da privacidadeAssociação sem fins lucrativos, dedicada à defesa dos direitos fundamentais no contexto digital.
#Portugal#Privacidade#DireitosDigitais
GNUTUX

Searx.space: محرك بحث يحترم خصوصيتك!
Searx.space هو موقع يجمع بين العديد من محركات البحث مفتوحة المصدر، مع ضمان خصوصية المستخدم وعدم تتبع بياناته.
المميزات:
- لا يجمع بيانات المستخدمين.
- يدعم البحث في محركات متعددة.
- واجهة بسيطة وسهلة الاستخدام.
▶️ جربه الآن: searx.space/
#Searx #Privacy #OpenSource #gnutux
#خصوصية_البيانات #محرك_بحث

searx.spaceSearXNG instancesOnline and offline instances
David August ❌👑

As our digital lives in the US become less stable and private, I wanted to figure out how to choose what search engine my browser uses.

I just added a new default search engine option for my Firefox on my MacBook (Mac OS).

1) add an extension to Firefox to allow me to add a different default search engine:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

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addons.mozilla.orgAdd custom search engine – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)Download Add custom search engine for Firefox. Add a custom search engine to the list of available search engines in the search bar and URL bar.
#search#privacy#settings
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