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I've used Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Gibiru, etc. - all of them are either shit or they just search Google/Bing on the backend and present you with the results for "privacy."

Why is it so nearly impossible for an independent company to put together their own search engine similar to Yahoo in the 90's? Hell, I would gladly take 1990's Yahoo technology today over the bells and whistles of propaganda Google and Bing today.

I just searched vaccine deaths on DuckDuckGo and it's nothing but "FACT CHECK" bullshit at the top. DuckDuckGo is absolute shit. What are the real alternatives? Are they all being murdered when they try to start up a search engine?

At this point Yandex seems to be the only search that isn't biased about US politics. But c'mon, we shouldn't have to use Kremlin search to be able to search the internet.

I've used Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Gibiru, etc. - all of them are either shit or they just search Google/Bing on the backend and present you with the results for "privacy." Why is it so nearly impossible for an independent company to put together their own search engine similar to Yahoo in the 90's? Hell, I would gladly take 1990's Yahoo technology today over the bells and whistles of propaganda Google and Bing today. I just searched vaccine deaths on DuckDuckGo and it's nothing but "FACT CHECK" bullshit at the top. DuckDuckGo is absolute shit. What are the real alternatives? Are they all being murdered when they try to start up a search engine? At this point Yandex seems to be the only search that isn't biased about US politics. But c'mon, we shouldn't have to use Kremlin search to be able to search the internet.

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[–] • 7 pts

Yahoo and Askjeeves worked quite well for the time, also Lycos, Hotbot, Altavista and so on. The main reason why Google works so well today (as they did in 2000) is that they defend against search engine spam (sometimes called SEO) which made search engines basically useless when they were manipulated like fuck. Google does that very well, Bing isn't bad either. Duckduckgo is ok, but is not a very good search engine. There are other attempts at doing it, but this is like saying why does nobody make a drink that beats Coca Cola after a week, this just does not work.

Yandex is quite ok, but is based in russia, Chinese search engines do not work well for English text, there are no alternatives.

[–] • 2 pts

Lycos is still around and probably the last search engine not owned by one of the big companies or the government.

Also, or .

[–] • 0 pt

Getting a bunch of tired tripe from the Anglo-Zionist media is search engine spam.