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Bing to search

21 points by quickthrower2 6y ago

quickthrower2 6y ago
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.
- dschuessler 6y ago
  I use the Redirector extension to mitigate the problem of "getting into the habit" by automation: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ 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-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
  - m-p-3 6y ago
    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.
prashere 6y ago
Have you tried searX? https://searx.me https://searx.me https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Not yet. I’ll give it a go and add it to the list
  - simfree 6y ago
    I don't see Qwant on here, I tend to see better results on it than Google.
    - quickthrower2 6y ago
      qwant and (the top instance of) searx have now been added

21 points by quickthrower2 6y ago

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.

dschuessler 6y ago
I use the Redirector extension to mitigate the problem of "getting into the habit" by automation: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ 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-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
- m-p-3 6y ago
  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.

prashere 6y ago

Have you tried searX? https://searx.me https://searx.me https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

quickthrower2 6y ago
Not yet. I’ll give it a go and add it to the list
- simfree 6y ago
  I don't see Qwant on here, I tend to see better results on it than Google.
  - quickthrower2 6y ago
    qwant and (the top instance of) searx have now been added