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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

searx and searxng are not search engines, and searx is more private (searxng collects info from users, which searx never wanted to). AFAIK duckduckgo is neither a search engine on its own, it uses blink...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

To tell the truth, only yacy and sightnet have own index(database). Others are meta-search engines. They work like proxy. It's called meta search. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iirc Mojeek also has it's own database

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was wrong.

The search results provided by Mojeek come from its own index of web pages, created by crawling the web.[6][7][8]

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