Re:Show HN: Altsear.ch - you can get by without using Google...
by quickthrower2 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:36AM
(#26851081)
I created this site in about 2 hours from an idea I had. I like using alternative search engines but I often forget the names and don't get into the habit. I would also like to use them at work for coding related queries. So I built this simple page as a starting point to choose the various 'alt' search engines.
Happy to add your suggestions for more search engines.
This is designed for privacy focused people, and/or people who want to slowly become less reliant on big tech companies.
I still use Google for a hell of a lot of things, but this is one less thing I need to use Google for on a day to day basis.
It redirects all my googling to Startpage so I don't have to change my habits at all.
I recently discovered Privacy Redirect which apparently took the idea a step further by providing presets that redirect visits to popular web services to their privacy friendly alternatives by default and thus mitigates the need to set up a redirector extension yourself:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
Re:Show HN: Altsear.ch - you can get by without using Google...
by m-p-3 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @03:50PM
(#26855720)
Why not simply change the search provider in your browser?
For the redirection side of thing I agree that could be useful for someone wanting to redirect YouTube links to an Invidious instance, and Twitter links to a Nitter instance, etc.
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
Happy to add your suggestions for more search engines.
This is designed for privacy focused people, and/or people who want to slowly become less reliant on big tech companies.
I still use Google for a hell of a lot of things, but this is one less thing I need to use Google for on a day to day basis.
It redirects all my googling to Startpage so I don't have to change my habits at all.
I recently discovered Privacy Redirect which apparently took the idea a step further by providing presets that redirect visits to popular web services to their privacy friendly alternatives by default and thus mitigates the need to set up a redirector extension yourself: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
For the redirection side of thing I agree that could be useful for someone wanting to redirect YouTube links to an Invidious instance, and Twitter links to a Nitter instance, etc.