startpage is already on google level and the defaults of some searxng instances are better the google results
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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Not open source. I find Yandex to be objectively the most superior search engine for all purposes, as they work outside Western jurisdictions. Better privacy than Google/Bing.
If you want a "private" search engine, Searx metasearch with "default language (all)" option works about 85% as good as Yandex.
Edit: 85% is only meant for text/link results. Yandex also has reverse image search, video search and other things with no competition in sight.
If you want lesser private but more ordinary results, Startpage is great.
Everything else is same tier or bad/useless. DDG (western censorship), Ecosia, Qwant, Google, BingGPT and others included.
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It's great using their Fastgpt which gives accurate results from various forums and websites, where other gpt based search engines lack. And got to try their Summarizer.
I recommend to use it as Secondary source (with tempmails) and Primary remains SearX for sure.
Do they have an android app? I haven't been able to find anything that looks trustworthy
I just added the search engine to my browser. I don't see the need for an app when all of the results are going to open in the browser anyways.
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How is map searching/integration?
It's Apple maps. It works but it's not great.
From my brief interactions with the dev I believe they're doing things the very hard way when it comes to indexing.
It might be the only choice once AI poisoning becomes prolific. It's already corrupted the niche topics and soon it may overwhelm the topics with more human eyes on it.