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DDG is more of a privacy frontend for Bing then its own search engine. Typically if its not on Bing its not gonna be on DDG.
Works on both Brave and Google via Mullvad Leta
Ddg gets its results from more than just bing as well as doing some curation on top.
This is true. Although the curation is minimal and while bing isn't the only source its the main source.
Feel free to compare the results of a ddg search and bing search.
Is it a surprise? Bing is controlled by M$, and their search results are taken by Qwant and DDG. Ecosia also runs with google results so it isn't affected.
Jokes on you, i tried using qwant and they just straight up deny me access because using a VPN apparently is "suspicious".
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Wait Ecosia switched from Bing to Google?
Startpage was the only commercial search engine indexing Google from my knowledge.
Ecosia uses both but they do use the bing ads system
Brave Search also returns results for it just fine as well. Which makes sense given they run with their own indexing now (with fallbacks to Google and Bing only when requested).
Kagi is unaffected.
I guess you are supporting my assertion?
I mean yeah, this is a screenshot of the search results. It is weird that there is a reddit post asking to see the opposite above the desired page which just needed the TLD added. But still, the page in question is in the search results.
Not sure why I got a downvote, but I don't mind being unpopular.
In context it felt like a rebuttal, but with the link clearly shown. Maybe a comment to help clarify next time?
For the record, I deprioritize reddit so the actual link is on top for me.
This is the problem with social media, especially Lemmy and Reddit. It is the default stance to assume a neutral comment is hostile. Why do we all argue so much? I've been there, but I'm trying to be kinder online. I think it's a systemic problem and I don't know the solution.
I've noticed over the years it ebbs and flows with the broader "societal mood". People are much more on edge nowadays for rightful reasons, but it creates a pretty toxic environment on the internet.
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Damn shame. I use DDG, but them consistently fucking up makes me want to switch. Though i don't know of any alternatives.
edit: thanks for the recommendations!
Kagi. Privacy focussed, no ads, and excellent results with options for sorting preferred sources to appear at the top, or not. Costs money but man, it’s fast and good in the way Google was back in the day. Some plans also include anonymous access to a variety of LLMs though they are older models, and if they can run them locally, they do. Really liking it.
FWIW the founder of Kagi is adamant that subscribers must accept part of the subscruption money being sent to Russia (Yandex, fully govt-controlled) and has refused all attempts at excluding it. When questions started appearing he even tried claiming Yandex isn't even russian.
Source?
Very quick internet search yielded this result: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo/19
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Ngl I don’t get these people always being like “Source?”
Just look it up bruh it takes less time than to comment
Just look it up bruh it takes less time than to comment
Source?
Asking the person who purports to be an expert on the situation to provide some context is much faster than someone who knows nothing about it, like myself, trying to find it.
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I'll give the trial a go, thank you for the recommendation
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https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google
https://searx.space/ uses any of the big search engines you want, you do have to pick an instance
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Best one is probably (in my opinion) selfhosting a searxng instance. It takes results from a dozen of engines (you configure which ones) and merges them according to the configured weights and some algorithmic magic.
If you use public instances, the owner might have tuned the results to suit themselves and it returns garbage for your usecase. And also they frequently get timeouts because a lot of people use them. So don't get turned off by trying a couple of them.
Since I started running my own private instance I am super happy with the search results.
+1 i have my own searxng instance on my lan that I access via my headscale VPN setup. Love it.
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Startpage is similarly anonymous, but it uses Google search
And is owned by an ad company afaik
Yeah, they advertise using only the context of the keywords of your current search. No storing of personal data, no profiling. They've had third parties review that. Seems fine to me.
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I literally told you months ago I have a SearXNG instance up, you fucking knob.
I forgor 
I'll set it as my main tomorrow and see where this goes lol
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Context is needed. What is that site? And why do you believe search results about it are being censored?
To be honest, the poster is "SPU," so this is probably 90% to promote the site. (Not that I really care that much in this case, I like South Park and think episodes that have Muhammad in them should still be available despite religious extremists being upset.)
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AFAIK, Yandex doesn't censor piracy stuff.
You should be using SearXNG anyway.
To be fair, SearXNG still queries DuckDuckGo, QWant an Bing by default, I suspect Google does the same thing so Startpage would be out as well.
With default settings it still fetches southparkuncensored.com for me. It might query those engines, but it also queries other ones by default as well.
Sadly all those search engines directly or indirectly censor piracy results. I use DDG daily but they sadly do a lot of censoring results of various kinds, even just political.
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