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[–] Fungah 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's still just Google and ddg and whatnot though.,?

Like. There's only a few search engines. Bing. Google. Yandex. Yep.

I haven't found aggregating them with search to be even remotely useful because more garbage is still garbage

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

There is actually a lot more search engines that you might think, plus there are privacy frontends for them you can aggregate.

Edit: Also the main poin't of searxng is to use it as a proxy for them which hepps if you use an instance with multiple users, or host an instance for you and your friends for example.

[–] Fungah 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Excepting yep and Yandex virtually everything else is just a front end for Google / bing afsikm unless I'm incorrect about that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

wiby, brave search and there is a few more