Startpage – private search engine

Re:Startpage – private search engine by spaceboy on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:30PM (#13517741)

A few other alternative search engines:

Searx : https://searx.me

Searx Instances : https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

Ecosia : https://www.ecosia.org

DeuSu : https://deusu.org

Also staying on topic, anyone remember Cuil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by knight17 on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:45AM (#13519328)

None of them have any features in addition to what we get from Google/Bing/Yahoo/Yandex.

Searx seems to have categories such as music, science, news, social media and so on which is better than nothing.

What I currently do is: (site:blogspot.com OR site:livejournal.com OR site:wordpress.com) <query>

Blog search gives me pages written by people: fans, amatuers and sometimes professionals; I miss such pages and perspectives when I do a general web search in Google. Above search, however, excludes self-hosted blogs and other hosting services. For forum search I just add something like phpBB|vBulletin|Invision to the query which is a hit or miss. I also have Google CSE created from my 500+ RSS feeds which gives very good results.

Earlier Google used to have both these features and it is annoying to see they remove useful functions. I just hope someone comes up with a search engine for blogs and discussion forums.

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by executesorder66 on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:24AM (#13519901)

Another really interesting search engine : http://yacy.net/en/index.html

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by noquill on Monday January 30, 2017 @09:43AM (#13521517)

CLIQZ: Very private Search Engine and Browser - https://cliqz.com/en/

+ Algorithmic anti-tracking: http://www2016.net/proceedings/proceedings/p121.pdf

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