[–] lowcarblivin 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
In the meantime I use https://yandex.com .. It has organic search results like Google used to.
[–] mostlyfriendly 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Honest question: Are you dumping on DDG for being bad at search or for not being really anonymous? If the 2nd point, do you care to elaborate?
[–] anonnynonny 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
I don't necessarily agree, but this post presents an argument.
Additionally, they pull results from yahoo/bing/etc, which mean it is heavily reliant on third party algorithms which can manipulate results.
FWIW, I mainly use DDG myself, but searx, being open-source, is a more interesting alternative in my opinion.
Any server->client search engine inherently has the problem of blind trust... You have to blindly trust that they are doing what they say they are doing (or not doing) - verification is highly difficult, if not impossible.
YaCy potentially solves that issue, since it's p2p... but from what I understand it has a long way to go before it's really a viable alternative.
[–] anonnynonny 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Searx is an open-source search engine. searx.me is one implementation of it.
Depending on your level of paranoia, trusting an individual implementation of searx may not be acceptible, but that inherent trust is applicable to ANY server-hosted service.
IMO Searx is the closest thing we have to a "working, anonymous substitution" at this point in time.
[–] whatisbestinlife 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
ask kim.com?