Re: What search engine best at "Freedom-Respecting"?

[Ali Reza Hayati]

On 7/14/23 18:52, Ignis wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 15:12:37 +0000, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
> wrote:
>
> > I would guess Duckduckgo is much better than the main search engines
> > such as Google and Bing.  There are several such as SearX which are more
> > decentralised, but can also be self hosted, which that comes with the
> > price tag of time, resources, cost and effort to set up and maintain.
>
> Speaking of SearX, these are all still meta search engines that rely on
> centralised search engines for the index. I tried YaCy once before, which
> is a P2P search engine that relies on a decentralised index, but it was
> written in Java and consumed so much RAM that my server crashed.

I miss previous messages but I have to mention that network services 
aren't free or nonfree; they raise other issues: 
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html

I personally use DuckDuckGo and sometimes Searx. They both work with 
JavaScript disabled and are fast and promoted to be more private than 
other ones but I guess we can never be sure as they are installed and 
run on other people's computers so we can't actually verify the program.

Also, there's some other search services I like such as SwissCows.com.

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Ali Reza Hayati (https://alirezahayati.com)

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