you don’t have to tell me information about why Rui’s drive is gone, I just googled it because I forgot their name (I thought it was Anadius’ drive at first)

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    eh, ddg is just bing. Only marginally better ideologically, and probably worse practically.

        • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          29 days ago

          I currently really enjoy self-hosted Perplexica (a FOSS alternative to the Perplexity AI search engine), which uses SearXNG as a meta-crawler, and Ollama for local AI integration. I’m very happy with it, but it requires a fairly powerful server (not a Raspberry Pi or another SBC, the only one that might work is the Nvidia Jetson or whatever it’s called, but I haven’t tried that yet).

        • unrushed233@lemmings.worldEnglish
          2·
          29 days ago

          I don’t know, I also use DDG because I can’t find a better alternative. I thought you had a better recommendation 😂

          The only thing that comes to my mind is 4get, a proxy for DDG which is a little better for your privacy, since you don’t have to trust DDG as much. But it lacks some features like DDG’s Bangs.

          There’s also LibreY, a fork of LibreX, which acts as a proxy for Google. Still not great though. The one thing I really like about it, it that it also has a built-in torrent search feature.

          I think the best option is SearXNG, you can configure which search engines you want to use, and you can access DDG bangs by using two exclamation marks (e.g. !!yt for YouTube)

          Unfortunately there’s no good self-hostable search engine with a good web crawler

    • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      fr!! im always confused when people advertise ddg as ‘the best privacy browser’ when it is well-known their results are bing’s, also the huge marketing campaign they did about how they’re ‘the most private and respect your privacy’ just weirded me out?? like it was a bit suspicious idk. oh yeah and that thing where the mobile ddg browser allowed microsoft trackers on microsoft ads because of their deal with bing (hey that rhymed!!)

      ++ half the time when i searched for anything moderately obscure there would be 0 results, or even if i didnt search for stuff like that i’d get results completely unrelated to my query.