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[–] anonnynonny 0 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.