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There are alternatives to google. I'm not talking only about duck or millionshort[0]. I'm talking about p2p-like search engine like searx[1] and yacy[2]. If som
by marcodiego 5y ago
There are alternatives to google. I'm not talking only about duck or millionshort[0]. I'm talking about p2p-like search engine like searx[1] and yacy[2]. If some of these independent search engines could collaborate implementing a API to allow cross service search sharing, I think the google search monopoly would soon be threatened.
[0] https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx
[2] https://yacy.net/ https://yacy.net/
- Seirdy 5y agoI've cataloged a bunch of engines with their own independent indexes: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429942 Million Short and DDG both proxy Bing results. YaCy result quality tends to be unusable, but YaCy can be useful for intranet searches.
- scoopertrooper 5y ago> DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources,[45] including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Search_results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Search_results
- Seirdy 5y agoThat refers to their Instant Answers. The regular link results ("organic results") are proxied from Bing. You can compare them side by side; the order of the results may vary slightly because Bing varies things a little, but the links are the same. The DuckDuckBot scrapes data from select websites for some Instant Answers and it grabs favicons for other sites.
- ErrrNoMate 5y agoPrime DDG nonsense this, they're pretty much Bing all t h e w a y d o w n