Hi everyone, so I hear that a lot of are lost in choosing a good search engine apart from the popular ones, but I think I have the solution

The search engine I’ve been using on all my devices is named “Qwant” its French and of course European. Its private and fast, I’ve been using it and didn’t had any issues with it.

So yes I am also new here on Lemmy and just wanted to be useful.

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  • arakhis_@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    anyone know what their plans are exactly in terms of switching away from bing?

    also altough I smile everytime im not using google or bing directly anymore while getting these amazing results with that nice qwant UI:

    it’s image search is my biggest complaint usecase wise. the results are small, non-scalable and theres no similar search upon focusing one result

        • haverholm@kbin.earth
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          3 months ago

          As I understand, it’s no small task to build or maintain a working search index. There’s a reason it’s mostly been huge, corporate entities that take on the challenge, and why smaller search providers tend to rely on preexisting ones.

          So I applaud Qwant and Ecosia on their initiative, but also understand that it may take a while before it bears fruit.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      With a private searxng instance searches still come from your single IP so if you use ie; google, bing, etc… You’re still being tracked heavily.

      Unless you use a public instance where your searches are ‘lost in the noise’. But then most of the search engines will block it so it doesn’t work very well in my experience.