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Doesnt searx looks for results at duckduckgo and google for you anyway? Whats the difference from using ddg directly?
by kristianpaul 5y ago
Doesnt searx looks for results at duckduckgo and google for you anyway? Whats the difference from using ddg directly?
- sebow 5y agoI don't think it uses DDG directly.But anyways you can configure the sources for files, media, wiki,etc. Makes sense since the engine is open source, but then again it's not really a search engine itself but a metasearch one
- boudin 5y agoThere's other sources available. It is a meta search engine, so it will always rely on other sources, but you can disable duckduck go and google backends.
- luciusdomitius 5y agoIsn't duckduckgo just an alternative frontend for bing with an integrated ad/tracking blocker. Or at least that's what they claim.
- nicce 5y agoIt is. They say they add some indexing on they own, but results are all the same.
- BeetleB 5y agoSearx can ping multiple search engines, including those not supported by DDG. For example, searx has a dedicated file search, which includes torrents.