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Many "alternative" search engines are better for privacy, but they are still vulnerable to censorship, because they rely on g**gle and m*crosoft's indices for their search results. This isn't a deep-hidden secret either, many of them disclose what search index they use on the "about" page, for example:

There are still search engines that (claim to) maintain their own index. Most surprisingly, br*ve:

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[–] hardaysknight 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I swear to God you people must work for Kagi.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lol, I know how you feel. Not long ago there was suddenly a bunch of chatter about it on Lemmy and I was thinking the same thing, that it had to be marketing. But I'm a curious sort and I was so sick of bad google results so I tried it.

Now that I have used Kagi I'm convinced it was organic chatter. I really do like it, I think it's better, and if they offered money for posts I'd take that money because I'm paying $10 a month for a search engine, lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I thought this was a possibility at first, then I used it. The lad time is basically instant, the results are always good and it has a bunch of features with AI etc.

[–] M137 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or people just like it? This isn't hard to understand and has always been a thing. When people find something they really like they will tell other people about it.

[–] hardaysknight 1 points 10 months ago

That’s possible, but when every comment mentioning it has a 1000 word count, it screams advertisement to me.