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[–]anonnynonny0 points
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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.
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[–] 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.