submitted 2 years ago by lopar49@lemm.ee to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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This is pretty much a. Follow up to my post yesterday and was wondering which search engine to use, I’m leaning stlightly towards mullvad as it is a more reputable and they get their results exclusively from braves index but 4get is open source and has an official instance.

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[-] anothermember@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

The fact that it uses Brave's index is partly what puts me off using Mullvad Leta.

[-] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

How come? You can swap to google, but google is bad with censorship. I would have said braves index is the best independent index (other than google). Main reason I won’t use brave is it not being open source search engine. With this I get best of both worlds.

[-] anothermember@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Well I'm not a fan of Brave or Google as companies for individual reasons, look up about Brave's CEO for example.

I prefer to use an aggregator so at the moment I'm using searxng; the main downside I've found is that instances tend to get blocked from indexes eventually so you do have to move around a bit.

[-] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

But this isn’t using brave?

[-] anothermember@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

I mean I would think twice about using them as a single source for search, the same as I would think twice about using Google as a single source. That's why I prefer to use an aggregator.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

4get has more features and supports more indexes.

[-] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I get that but I’m honestly not that fussed about features or index’s 99 times out of 100 my search is just a simple one to find a specific website or news article

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I thought whoogle shutdown?

[-] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Used leta for a short period, but it was down annoyingly often

[-] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Was this during beta?

[-] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Probably, it was like a month ago

[-] b000urns@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Give Kagi a look -- it's not free though. My free trial has ended but I'm considering shelling out for it.

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