Just got a "Standard" account on the Kagi search engine, $5/month, installed the firefox extension, tried a couple searches, enjoyed.

We'll see. May they not devolve like so many others. Stay good, Kagi!

https://kagi.com/

#WebSearch #EvilGoogle #LameDDG #Web

#WebSearch is like #Diskworld: Any idea becomes true once you look it up.

Dear Every Single Search Box Anywhere: If I put quotes around "my search", I want an exact match to "my search". Don't show matches for one word, related terms, or even if all the words appear non-sequentially in the same page.
Exact match or nothing.

#rant #search #webSearch #searchEngine

Everyone knows #Google #search is bad now. Unfortunately, #DuckDuckGo isn't much better. What are some good alternatives? #websearch #internet

@5am
Its a similar story with #searx, however searx uses not just G but aggregates search resilts from potentially G, DDG, MS, Metager, Qwant, Yandex and more.

We like to roll two dice (or a six-sided pen) to choose a #searchEngine. We have 36 lined up. Two tosses of a pen. :)

#webSearch

MAKE JAVASCRIPT AN ABERATION.

Sites Sans Scripts

#nowThis #SSS #makeJavascriptAnAberation #ethicalWeb #punchingUp #sitesSansScripts #webDev #webDesign #newIdea #boldIdea #ethicalAction #noScript #climateAction #torBrowser #webSearch #searchSansScripts @joel

@koherecoWatchdog

Escaping #Microshaft is more hard than it should be.

Its bad enough that they serve #GriftHub, #LinkedIn and are a partner of the CDN giant, #Akamai.

The fact that they also effectively host #DuckDuckGo, should really raise an alarm for any thinking man, woman, child, duck, duck and flipping goose on the planet.

Maybe #DuckCoverRun ought be the colloquialism.

#gooseGooseDu #webSearch #dotCon #mIcRosOFt #gIthUb

@baldur And, speaking of gatekeeping the default search engine(s) offered in browsers:

"Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business"

The complaint charges that Google and Apple agreed that Apple would not compete in the internet search business against Google. The complaint claims that the means used to effectuate the non-compete agreement included; (1) Google would share it's search profits with Apple; (2) Apple would give preferential treatment to Google for all Apple devices; (3) regular secret meetings between the executives of both companies; (4) annual multi-billion-dollar payments by Google to Apple not to compete in the search business; (5) suppression of the competition of smaller competitors and foreclosing competitors from the search market; (6) acquiring actual and potential competitors.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-lawsuit-filed-in-california-alleging-google-is-paying-apple-to-stay-out-of-the-search-engine-business-301453098.html

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29806076

#Google #Apple #Monopoly #Antitrust #Competition #Search #WebBrowsers #WebSearch #Lawsuits

uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in search results

Supports multiple search engines, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and more.

https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29546433

#uBlacklist #WebSearch #Google #DuckDuckGo #BrowserExtensions

For those who might be new to Fedi and don't know you can help reduce #Google's dominance in #video by using #Peertube and supporting those who run a Peertube server, like our admin, @witchescauldron.

You can help end Google's extreme dominance in #webSearch by using #TorBrowser and #searx websites. Tor can help make you more anonymous, while Searx sends your query to an array of #searchEngines like #qwant, #startpage and #duckduckgo and more, helping you get more diverse results.

@alejandrobdn
Please excuse us, do you mean #qwantDotCom?

Have you heard of #Searx?

Basically anyone can setup a publicInterface that fetches result from all the search engines. Combining searx with #TorPrivacyBrowser makes it impossible for #BigTech (#Google #Microsoft etc.) to know what individuals are searching for.

:)

#quant #Bing #duckduckgo #webSearch #deleteGoogle #deleteMicrosoft

In today's age, if you don't want people to find #information on something, you'd #misdirect their #webSearch to #spam, right?

Recently we discovered even #DuckDuckGo were guilty of this, during a #search for the great #documentary, 'JFK to 911: Rich Man's Trick'

Try searching for it - you'll be served spam #videos and edited trash.

The real version is 3h27m w intermission at 1h25m here:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI

#JFK #JFKto911

@liaizon

@hypolite
In today's #economicClimate of #neoliberalism, the #KochBrothers would rub their hands at #openBorders, even #BernieSanders said that.

We do understand #anarchism, however a #paradigmShift is needed in the #collectiveConsciousness before we can safely get there; ie. Using #decentralised systems, #landTax (see #HenryGeorge), and a #universalBasicIncome.

We're unsure what you're seeing in our hashtags. We believe it wise to tag anything people might want to #webSearch for :)

@njoseph
Indeed. We have been using the "search for" phrase for a while.

Unfortunately #DuckDuckGo are not the greatest either. Yesterday we discovered that they refer people to a #spam video on #youtube when people search for "JFK to 911 Rich Man's Trick".

We don't think this is an accident.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be great many options re #webSearch. There's #searx but #Fediverse hashtags might be the best way moving forward.