[ShadowAce]

I am not affiliated with this guy in any way, shape or form. I happened to run across this video, and thought people may be interested in another way to ditch Google the Evil.

[ShadowAce]

[CatOwner]

Doubtful that any of our online searches are fully private. There will always be someone who has access to it.

[Pollard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx#Instances

Any user may run their own instance of Searx,[20][21][22] which can be done to maximize privacy, to avoid congestion on public instances, to preserve customized settings even if browser cookies are cleared, to allow auditing of the source code being run, etc.[23][24][25] Users may include their Searx instances on the editable list of all public instances, or keep them private.[18][23] It is also possible to add custom search engines to a self-hosted instance that are not available on the public instances.[26]

Another reason to use different Searx instances, and/or to run one’s own, is that as of 2019, Google has begun to block some instances, including some of the IP addresses used by searx.me (former instance run by the developer), from querying it, resulting in a “google (unexpected crash: CAPTCHA required)” error.[27] In response, some instances have been modified to silently skip trying to search with Google, even when it’s the only engine specified.[28][29]

[HYPOCRACY]

Google owns YouTube.

[cotton1706]

I use Bing. There’s no manipulation. You can filter whatever news your looking for to the past 24 hours, the past week, month etc.

Never had a problem.

[Pollard]

https://searx.github.io/searx/

[Bobalu]

I have created web-spiders (crawlers) but never a whole search engine...

I now put narrowly focused crawlers into firmware for IoT devices.

ESP32 and Pico W are the poor-man’s hardware platforms of choice for such things.

[Yo-Yo]

NO, just NO. Sure, you’re not giving your search history to Google, you’re giving it to Searx instead. Who knows what Chinese Government entity owns Searx.

[Jim W N]

Have you ever wanted to create your own search engine?

No, I can't say I've ever wanted to do that. I leave the IT stuff up to the other guys.

I think of computers as a better way to get to my goals. The computer itself is not my goal, only a means to an end. When it comes to computer stuff, I'll let the other guys be the creators.

[Jim W N]

Have you ever wanted to create your own search engine?

No, I can't say I've ever wanted to do that. I leave the IT stuff up to the other guys.

I think of computers as a better way to get to my goals. The computer itself is not my goal, only a means to an end. When it comes to computer stuff, I'll let the other guys be the creators.

[4yearlurker]

I never use Google. Duck Duck Go works for for the past few years.

[chaosagent]

Bkmk

[SuperSonic]

I like to use Startpage

Start your private search
Get privacy protection across the web

[martin_fierro]

Ugh, that guy’s shtick gets old, fast.

“You need to do X, no matter what the cost!”

[Angelino97]

Without having seen the video, I assume he's talking about piggybacking onto preexisting search engines, then filtering their results to your liking.

To build an actual search engine, one that would spider the entire internet, well, wouldn't that require massive bandwidth and processing power?

[RebelTXRose]

btt

[Albion Wilde]

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