I'm leaving DuckDuckGo, and here's what I picked...

I break down my journey of finding a new private search engine--let it help you on your journey for the best search engine for YOU!

Since some people are asking: No--none of the search engines in this video paid us money or influenced it in any other way, strictly Henry's personal journey. None were even aware of this video and are seeing it for the first time like you all are.

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00:00 Introduction
00:07 DuckDuckGo
00:51 Startpage
02:13 Searx
02:48 DuckDuckGo 2
03:34 The Dark Ages
03:55 Brave Search
06:45 Recapping All Options
#private #searchengine #techlore

[techlore]

*Spill the beans...what's your favorite search engine?! Let the world know below!* 🔽🔽

[crosenblum]

I think as wonderful it is to have many ui and useful features for search engine pages, it was never the best or full answer. We need many many independent search engines, so that we are never put in the position of one search index + engine monopolizing our access to information. Once the ability for more companies to do good solid effective search indices, the more freedom we will have.

[spencerallen]

searx all the way. Yes it was a bit overwhelming to set it up the first time, as a personal instance, even when using their docker image it's not very convenient. But a bit like running a hardened Firefox you sacrifice a bit of convenience for privacy and security.

[nineteen]

I quit DD go after years due to their new privacy changes… I now use Brave

[bipolarminddroppings]

You know, I'd never really thought about where DDG was getting their results from, I assumed they had their own index by now. It was the first private search engine that I liked and that was enough for me but seeing these other options presented, now I need to rethink.

[SniperOwl]

I went the exact same way DDG ---> Bad Results ---> SP ---> VPN blockage ----> Qwant and the others ----> Bad Results ---> Brave Search ---> Best one i found so far

[Bunuffin]

Currently using Brave, they updated lately adding some cool features.
And it didn't censored news from certain countries

[rogerwprice]

I abandoned DDG for Brave - works for me! Good to have your support for this too!

[crzyruskie]

I've been using brave search for a few months now. I hated it at first but in the little time I've used it I can tell it's improved drastically. I've also used their browser for years as well and I love their philosophy. Hopefully they stick with being privacy focused, good experiences.

[murtadha]

I actually had a similar experience and finally settled on Brave search

[kindnessasgreatasthesea]

My only criticism with this video is that in fact, System1 (ad company) has majority ownership of Startpage. System1's objective is in direct conflict with Startpage's objective and I have no idea how this could ever be reconciled in favor of the end user.

[Hooorse]

I mostly try to use Ecosia, but if I don't like the results, it has a build in option to search for the same thing in a different engine quickly.

[LearnThaiRapidMethod]

Thanks, very useful. I’m fed up with Google. It gives me results that are exactly what I don’t want to see (I even use the - to exclude stuff, and when I enter search terms in quotes, hardly any of the results have the search that I specifically requested).

And Bing gives me relatively few results, missing out on results that I know are out there.

I’m not too concerned about privacy, but when all the websites and pages that I visit shower me with ads for speakers (after I already bought a set) or ladders (after I already ordered and paid for one), then I think that’s taking intrusiveness that bit too far.

[EventHoriXZn]

What a coincidence, I’ve been using Brave’s browser by happenstance for a few weeks when looking for something to switch off to from Chrome, and didn’t realize they had their own search engine until I used it. I love it, it just works and like you said it has a pretty simple UI which is great for a normie like myself

[RaziOrSomething]

I always end up putting Reddit at the end of 99% of my searches no matter what engines I use simply because I get the best results from Reddit, and it's gotten to the point where I might as well use Reddit as a search engine.
Edit: I made Reddit into my secondary search engine.

[theatomicpunkkid]

Yeah Google and duck duck go are even blocking old time radio shows and some lesser known internet stations so at this point find a place to land from the air if you have to.

[joe_limon]

I switched from ddg to brave search several months ago when it was revealed the company was hiring based on race and genitalia rather than merit. Haven't regretted my decision. I expect in the next year or two info will come out that ddg was handing records over to various three letter agencies.

[alheno]

The main thing for me is getting uncensored, non-propagandized, results. Just want to a search engine like google used to be back in early 2000's where everything was listed and nothing was filtered out and you weren't assaulted by ads or manipulated results either for marketing purposes or for propaganda purposes

[draggonhedd]

I miss when search engines were JUST search engines. Google used to be good. No tailored results, no nearest guesses, no "did you mean", no promoted results, no inline ads, If your search term was bad, you got no results. If it was good, you got less than one page of results and one of them was exactly what you were looking for. I wish we could have a very back to basics index style searcha with none of the BS, you know like google was in the 2000s. I'm gonna give Brave a shot and see if it holds up better than DDG for me.

[gidi]

@Techlore - First thanks for the video (like)

Second, I want to encourage you to put out a list of criteria you feel browsers should adhere to.

Here is some of my notes for future search sites:
1. The site cannot record your actions without permission (the search query event, query management event, go-to result X, ..)
2. The search results can be auto-filtered by any factor, and configurable by the user.
3. To the question of keeping a cache/index of the search, the site should offer the user to share his search under certain categories: "please make the search available to people seeking X", "tag the search with X", "I will probably search this again", ...
4. The site will keep a cookie with a list of your search queries, each contains a filter, and the cookie also holds a main filter (used before the specific query ones).
The site will have a page for query management (and a page for query results, and a page for main filter management).
5. To the question of trusted sites and safe results - A list of verification sites is used to verify results by government, city, neighborhood, social groups, ... in two ways, and the user can decide to which one to listen:
1. The public authority of governments and social groups
2. The public anonymous site clients which share their opinion on a search result
6. To the question of speed of exposure with regard to not yet verified articles - how to avoid group synchronization issues - Meaning some search results should be held back of a time period that will allow measuring trust - People are encouraged to share a specific notion on "news" type of results - tag it with categories that help assess the appropriate speed, like "missing sources of news" or "half the story news" or "too many exaggerations" or "depends on X" or "publish always with a link to the whole story"...
7. Since searching the internet usually involves corroborations between results, the site should hold a page with a list of corroboration sites, so each result can sent to such site to receive a list of links that corroborate the result.
8. Finally, since the search site is in fact serves also as product commercial suggestions, we cannot have the site in control of product markets - rather we wish to find out about offers in a concrete method that won't hide locally available goods. So,
The trust evaluation sites must provide the category of search result which is a sold product, and something.