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“You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. so we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs. The result: The world’s best and most private search engine. Only now you can search without ads following you around, recommending products you’ve already bought. And no more data mining by companies with dubious intentions. We want you to dance like nobody’s watching and search like nobody’s watching.” — https://www.startpage.com/
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@geniusmusing #DDG is my primary search engine. #YaCy is my secondary. I still end up switching to #StartPage / #Google / #Seeks for 2 or 3 out of 10 searches because search results aren’t satisfactory.
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@ckeen @geniusmusing
I used to host #YaCy on a #VPS, but I’m currently using metager.org (because search.yacy.net has been broken for a little while)
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@ckeen @geniusmusing
The #VPS setup was Debian, 4GiB of RAM. I changed the #YaCy settings to use up to 2GiB of that. YaCy was installed and regularly updated through APT. I allowed it to connect to the “OneWorld” network of peers. I think It used port 8090.
No other services were installed.
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@blort I haven’t seen any ads ;-)
Qwant seems to be okay. I haven’t used it enough to know how well it would meet my expectations.
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@blort @johnnynull I noticed years ago that #DDG’s results differ from #Yahoo’s, which differ from #Bing’s. Non-bubbling may be part of it, but it doesn’t explain the sharply different results (or at least sort order of the results) between the Bing and Yahoo.
It doesn’t surprise me that #Startpage’s results differ from #Google’s, even beyond the filter bubble.
As for which to use, I use a variety, including Startpage, but the main one is determined mainly by quality of results, and Startpage’s results are generally inferior to #DuckDuckGo and to #Searx & #Seeks (but far superior to #YaCy or the abysmal results that #Ask gives).