Brave, the privacy-focused browser co-founded by ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, is getting ready to launch an own-brand search engine for desktop and mobile. Today it’s announced the acquisition of an open source search engine developed by the team behind the (now defunct) Cliqz anti-tracking search-browser combo. The tech will underpin the forthcoming Brave Search engine […]
Can we first get DDG to become the most used search engine before we make new ones?
Are we even sure we want duckduckgo? It’s basically just a bing frontend.
Try Qwant. I like it more than ddgo.
which also uses bing, yes it has it’s own crawler but most of the results are from bing.
No, they have indexed quite a lot since the Bing partnership that started long ago. And they seem to be doing pretty well, considering I like their results better than Google for academia.
Can you give a source to the doing well with the index? Everything I’ve read is leaving me thinking most still comes from Bing. Also is the 150 results limit gone? As much as I’d like to see Qwant succeed the owners clearly don’t know what they are doing unfortunately.
You can refer to the Qwant AMAs at reddit, and trying to make a bunch of searches with Bing (via Searx), Bing, and Qwant. This should give you a solid idea. I have been using Qwant for more than a year now, since my Startpage exposé on reddit.
I believe I switched to Qwant after I read your commentary on Startpage. It works quite well and others should certainly give it a try.
so ?
what’s wrong with that ?
I don’t mind as long as it respects users’ privacy.
https://lemmy.ml/post/31321
Wow, I’ve been using DDG for years and had no idea!
https://lemmy.ml/post/31321 Also this will be independent (I think) while DuckGuckGo just buys Bing results.
DDG html might be a better suggestion, though they should not be viewed as a panacea to problems of microsoft/google dominance on the search backend.
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html