What search engine does KF use? -

[Christ Cried]

I went from DuckDuckGo to searx.me last year, but that site started to have a lot of problems so I switched to yandex. Recently though I found that startpage is basically a proxy for google and I've found it really useful thus far. It has some slow load times but otherwise it's great. What do you guys use?

 

[PumpkinSpiceBitchMeringue]

I liked Yandex a lot but then it suddenly didn't translate well into English so I had to get back to DDG.

 

[Thumb Butler]

Bing. I love their video search. I download music related stuff as well as sissy porn.

 

[Dildo]

I use Dogpile. DuckDuckGo didn't really seem to search very well and Yandex acts wonky with my VPN's.

I still use Google if I don't know exactly what I'm looking for sometimes.

 

[BingBong]

I use DDG and Yandex

 

[Clorox Cowboy]

Yandex for image searching, for everything else I've got 100 or so bookmarks. I rarely ever need to actually use a Search Engine.

 

[Captain Manning]

DDG, usually.

But I've noticed the video search isn't as robust as Google, so I'll still use Google (logged out) for video on occasion. They still have the most powerful search engine going, even if you can't stand the fucking company and their privacy practices. Use in moderation.

 

[Milk Mage]

Google has me by the balls and it's not letting go anytime soon.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

DDG

 

[BlueSpark]

I tried using Duck Duck Go for a while but got sick of the results being trash and went back to Google. I guess convenience is worth more to me than privacy.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I use Ecosia so I can pretend that I'm helping the environment and shit. I've always used Google in the past so it was interesting to see how search results can be dramatically different on a different engine (not in a good way). It's run by the same system/engine/ whatever word I'm looking for as Duck Duck Go, and so it did very briefly de-index the farms until Null yelled at them.

 

[Dreamland]

Self hosted Searx that culls results from DDG, Startpage and Yandex.

 

[Give Her The D]

Self hosted Searx that culls results from DDG, Startpage and Yandex.

Does Searx use a lot of space? I might give that a try for a little while.

As for me, DDG and Startpage.

 

[HeyYou]

Yahoo.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

Does Searx use a lot of space?

Not really.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

The only thing I don't like about Yandex is that it often will make me complete CAPTCHAs if I search too much.

 

[Give Her The D]

Not really.

I see. I ended up setting one up on a Linode instance, might use it for a while to see how it goes. Thanks!

 

[Dreamland]

I see. I ended up setting one up on a Linode instance, might use it for a while to see how it goes. Thanks!

You can run it on a raspi zero or on a (synology) docker container if you like, keep in mind that altough it keeps cookies out it'll still push queries out by IP if you're paranoid. I was also testing Yacy containers but it's not making much sens to me at the moment, i like the idea of distributed searching however.

 

[Rice Is Ready]

Google has me by the balls and it's not letting go anytime soon.

Yeah I used DDG for a while and always had to switch over to Google when I really wanted to find something. Half of DDG's search results are porn anyway.

 

[Give Her The D]

You can run it on a raspi zero or on a (synology) docker container if you like, keep in mind that altough it keeps cookies out it'll still push queries out by IP if you're paranoid. I was also testing Yacy containers but it's not making much sens to me at the moment, i like the idea of distributed searching however.

It seems to work decently, but Google's plugin seems to not work half the time. That's my only problem.