Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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It's definitely time for Searx MetaSearch or projects like https://yacy.net/
Definitely is... The only thing that keeps me going back to DDG is bangs, would love to see this implemented in Searx instances ๐
Bing often removes websites from their index but this does seem very weird. I don't know why Bing would remove a privacy blog from their search results but this also shows how so many search engines are dependent on Bing or Google for results. The only search engine which isn't dependent on Bing or Google right now seems to be Mojeek and Metager (Searx is just a meta-search engine). Mojeek is probably the most promising but right now it's results aren't the best but the results have been getting better. But I do wish that DuckDuckGo indexed search results themselves so they don't have to deal with Microsoft's decisions (also being reliant on big tech to start with isn't a good thing for a independent privacy-focused search engine.
I think writing a search engine on top of an existing index is not hard. The more difficult and expensive part is crawling the web.
Yeah crawling the web is the web is definitely the hard bit
I wonder if this is ripe for disruption. Any value in a startup that sells a web index?
I did forget to mention that Brave are now doing Brave search so that could be interesting to see where that goes.
What's going on with Duckduckgo? They have been doing a lot of really questionable stuff lately.
True... It already had some issues, but since the pro-Russia news de-ranking it's starting to implement more and more manipulation to the results, it's starting to go in Google's direction in terms of bubbling, the thing (I think) they were against... I don't know if it's just Bing's fault, but I hope they distance themselves as soon as possible by using their own crawler or more crawlers (which they claim they do, but it's hard to believe at this point).
That's weird as hell I'd like to see a follow up on that. What could be the reason?
We would like to know, but it seems a algorithmic decision... I'll update you if it is resolved. Meanwhile we would like to get this news so that Bing or DuckDuckGo notices it... If someone has Reddit (I'm shadowbanned) could please post it there too (maybe on DuckDuckGo's subreddit)?
Tried searching it using my searxng instance, and I can still find it (still indexed by duckduckgo, yahoo and Alexandria).
Don't know if has been fixed, but I guess it's an argument for using metasearch engines: get some redundancy, don't rely on just one source.
Probably because this post is one year old ;)