After popular pirate sites started disappearing from Google's top results, the same now appears to be happening at DuckDuckGo as well.
  • Dreeg Ocedam@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    I assume they disappeared from Bing’s results, and since DDG uses them, they don’t appear there anymore either.

  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    I recommend https://infinitysearch.co/ to anyone interested in al alternative, it is libre, privacy respecting and it is not a metasearch engine. They need help with development, also, so if anyone has some spare time you know what to do!

    • SirLotsaLocks@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 years ago

      Also searx, which is self hosted and had a bit more customizability at the cost of being (ootb) more ugly

      • je_vv@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        4 years ago

        Actually according to https://infinitysearch.co/about:

        When you search on our site, we take results from other search engines and our own indexes, organize them, and display them directly to you without logging any identifiable information about you.

        So it does some meta searching as well, like what Searx does. So I’m not sure why it was mentioned it wasn’t a metasearch engine, it looks it is, but with some indexes of its own. BTW, I always thought duckduckgo was a pure engine, and it does as well some meta searching through bing. On the other hand, it looks like a company behind it, is based on USA, whereas Searx has several instances out of USA, and you can still hos it yourself. One good thing about Searx, is that it allows you to add search engines beyond google, bing, duckduckgo and others, including some like nyaa, so it adds more to the searches to what google and others provide… Though infinitysearch looks more polished and provides a dark theme, which searx is urgently needing, :).

        As I can’t host it myself, I’ve been exploring the searx.info instance…

        • Dreeg Ocedam@lemmy.ml
          2·
          4 years ago

          BTW, I always thought duckduckgo was a pure engine, and it does as well some meta searching through bing.

          I don’t know where you get this idea from but it is completely false, pretty much all results come from Bing. Same goes for Qwant, ecosia a a few other search engines. Some of them are in the process of building their own index (AFAIK Qwant and Swisscow), but they still have a lot to catch up.

          Otherwise there’s mojeek, which has its own index and doesn’t do any metasearch, but the results are quite bad.

        • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
          2·
          4 years ago

          Yeah, all the search engines that are not the mainstreams are “meta-search engines”, what I meant is that it isn’t like Searx where the results come from at least 5 or 6 search engines. Their plan is to create their entire libre and open database, but is is hard to do so, so I think that’s also a point in favour. It also looks better aesthetically and I agree about self hosting, besides what I don’t like about Searx is that by default all instances are on safe search off, which I don’t like.

        • mikael@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 years ago

          BTW, I always thought duckduckgo was a pure engine, and it does as well some meta searching through bing.

          So, they succeeded with marketing. The situation is exactly the opposite. It’s 99.99% rebranded Bing (and Yahoo and Yandex) with a slight touch of DuckDuckBot.

        • je_vv@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          4 years ago

          Something else in the same https://infinitysearch.co/about:

          Our service is funded by non-tracking advertisements, affiliate links, a pro version (in development), Coil members (they view no ads), and our search results API.

          Which is also mentioned here, https://infinitysearch.co/why. Perhaps it will last longer than Searx, given its funding mechanisms, however I don’t really like advertisements, neither the existence of 2 versions for users, which might require more differentiation in the future. But definitely worth taking into account. For now I’m settling with Searx as mentioned. Thanks for the pointer.