4
0

Trying New Search Engines


 invite response                
2022 Mar 21, 9:05am   667 views  15 comments

by NuttBoxer   ➕follow (0)   💰tip   ignore  

I stopped using duckduckgo about a year ago when I discovered their Biden bias compared to Qwant. Qwant seems to be increasingly censored as well though, and they have bugs with using them when your IP appears to be another country, but you still want results in English. After watching this video we're actually trying all three search engines mentioned. I'm using Presearch on Tor, Brave search on Brave, and set my wife up with SearX on her iphone. So far liking the results, but just started evaluating, so jury is still out.


original link
/

https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-presearch/?source=patrick.net

Comments 1 - 15 of 15        Search these comments

1   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2022 Mar 21, 9:27am  

Brave been good to me lately. Search engines are pretty easy to check, just look at opinions that our government doesnt like and see if you can find them on the search engine.
2   NuttBoxer   2022 Mar 21, 11:08am  

Yep, when I got rid of duckduckgo it was election season, and Qwant was not censoring Biden pedophile results. Now I search Ukraine. Whatever the latest psyop is, use that to check for any bias.
4   Patrick   2022 Mar 21, 11:57pm  

I'm also looking for a new mapping service. I don't use Google anything, and Bing maps just stopped working in both Brave and Safari on my laptop for some reason.

Yandex maps is not great, but functional.
5   NuttBoxer   2022 Mar 22, 9:17am  

mapquest still works, that's the one I usually go with. Lots of adds though.
6   Patrick   2022 Mar 22, 9:20am  

Thanks @NuttBoxer

https://www.mapquest.com/?source=patrick.net works great! That will be my mapping service now.
8   NuttBoxer   2024 Jan 19, 6:59am  

Interesting assessment of search engines. Trying out Mojeek, and if you search heavily censored topics like pedophilia, seems to offer a lot of results.

https://searchcomparison.neocities.org/
9   NuttBoxer   2024 Jan 19, 2:58pm  

So tried searching for republic services yuma, and got nothing useful. Wouldn't rely on Mojeek full time, but for censored topics, I think it has promise.
10   AmericanKulak   2024 Jan 19, 3:09pm  

Brave has been giving very curated-seeming results for controversial topics.
11   Patrick   2024 Jan 19, 3:23pm  

True, lately I find myself annoyed at the censorship on Brave and searching Yandex instead - and then finding what I was looking for.
12   NuttBoxer   2024 Jan 29, 2:03pm  

Moving to Yandex. Presearch has started adding these annoying sponsor links that redirect you to marketing pages instead of the actual link shown. Seems like they have some agreement with Nord, because those are the only results I get. Really annoying. Also they've started adding this car route test every time I search after opening the browser(I always clear everything on close).

Yandex seems more polished than Mojeek.
14   NuttBoxer   2024 Jan 29, 3:46pm  

If you look at that search comparison page, most of them use either google or bing for their results. Yandex is one of the exceptions along with Mojeek.

Please register to comment:

api   best comments   contact   latest images   memes   one year ago   random   suggestions