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🔍 A search engine is only as good as its search index. Even alternative search engines might be using indexes built by Big Tech. 👉 tuta.com/blog/what-is-search-i…

What is your favorite search engine? 🤔 Let us know in the comments!

#search #bigtech #privacy

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Feu d'jais 🥑
Feu d'jais 🥑
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I really like @Mojeek tbh but I'd say I get good results less than 50% of the time. I try to give feedback to help whenever I can. I love their "focus" feature.

I also realised we sometimes know on which site we want to search so I created a bunch of alias to different websites and I use them. If I want something about public services for example, I have a shortcut to search on the governmental website of my country.

@Mojeek
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Technicfan
Technicfan
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I have been using Brave Search for some time now and I'm really happy with it. There is this opt out telemetry and a little bit too much AI. But you can disable it and the Code LLM is pretty useful sometimes.
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Paul
Paul
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Ecosia because sustainability ist just as important as security and privacy.

That's why Tuta is the best of both worlds 🌱🔒

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Tuta
Tuta
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@repost We're doing our best to bridge sustainability and security. 🌳 🔒
@Paul
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Tuta
Tuta
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@Mojeek @jrod3737 A bit late to the party, but great to see a constructive discussion grow out of the comments. Let's keep making the internet a better place for everyone!
@Mojeek @Probably depressed
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Mojeek
Mojeek
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@jrod3737 got any examples we can work on?
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Probably depressed
Probably depressed
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@Mojeek One example, I use a website called Refquest regularly. When I type Refquest into Mojeek the results have a refquest.com result as the third result and it’s the privacy page. I just want the main website.

This happens on a lot of results. When there is a direct .com or .co.uk, etc website I get a bunch of stuff from other sites way before the actual site. And the result from the actual site isn’t the main landing page of the site.

@Mojeek
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Mojeek
Mojeek
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@jrod3737 thanks a lot, we're aware of issues when it comes to ranking homepages as the top result returned in the cluster (Mojeek is 1 result/site unless you change clustering in Preferences).

I've raised this as an example of that - something we're working on.

@Probably depressed
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Lauchmelder
Lauchmelder
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Selfhosted SearXNG, because i like different results from many engines in a clean UI. Many SearXNG public instances are limited in primetime, so i decided to selfhost for my family and me.
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Mark
Mark
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For some time now, and out of conviction that we in Europe need our own solution separate from the Big Techs, I have been using MetaGer. Although the search engine is dependent on the indexes of other search engines, #MetaGer is a partner of #OpenWebSearch in order to solve the problem of dependence on the few large companies such as Google in the long term on a European level.
#metager #OpenWebSearch
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iosc
iosc
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I simply ❤️ @MetaGer because you cannot see any tracker on ublock origin and the anonymous proxy is really cool. Their search results are really good!
@MetaGer
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