The other day the sole man behind this search engine popped up here on HN: https://gigablast.com/ https://gigablast.com/ He apparently does his own spidering a

The other day the sole man behind this search engine popped up here on HN: https://gigablast.com/ https://gigablast.com/ He apparently does his own spidering and own indexing. Absurd, right? I did a few tests. It's not as fast, it's definitely not as good for current affairs (ie, very recent stuff) and the author says it's not so good with synonyms. But outside of that it was hard to fault, so as DDG (well bing's) results are annoyingly uneven I switched to using it as my default. I didn't realise how lazy and dependent I've become on Google and Bing's ability to guess what I meant from the spelling mistake ridden crap I entered. If I put those quibbles aside, I'd rate it better than DDG. Which I find extraordinary. For now it remains my default.