It doesn't take millions of dollars to start a search engine.
Like 90% of my searches are for the same couple hundred Web-sites, the index could easily fit on a $400 SSD drive.
We need more smaller specialized search engines, ideally "open data" ones you could clone to your local NAT server. Only use general purpose search engines when necessary.
[–] Guy_Justsome 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Some Google alternatives listed here; haven't evaluated any of them yet.
[–] Paralaxor 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
They are pro-censorship and article 13, so into the trash it goes. If you really care about search engines beyond DDG and startpage you should look at a free and decentralized one like searx.me
https://www.article13.org/blog/qwant-supports-copyright-directive
[–] KIlerOfFreeTime 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
And why DuckDuckGo is not good anymore? looks fine to me
[–] mrsray 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
why? who owns qwant? google owns duckduckgo, so I prefer something else, but what benefits me from using qwant?
[–] redsun 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Google does not own duckduckgo, you got your facts wrong.