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Search engine without SEO garbage?
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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EDIT: looks like SearX is pretty much dead and had been replaced by SearXNG
Clicks on link: "Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country."
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I mean … I suppose that’s marginally better than Google’s frontpage telling me what town I’m in?
I guess any site will have access to the address that is used to access them. The question is what do they do with it. Maybe Qwant has a bot that scans addresses and sends back this message if they are not operating in a specific country. Important thing is that they don't put any cookie in your navigator and don't keep any information after you've left.
I’m not quite sure what Qwant is basing their country availability on
What's most annoying about the "tailored experience" is that they presume to know what you're looking for, even though you directly told them what to show you. They don't give a fuck about relevancy, they're going to show you whatever is going to make them the most money, which usually means corporate ad crap, and outrage news. Plus if they show you shit results then you'll search multiple times and they'll get to show you 4 times the ads.
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These points seem to mirror my experience for the most part. DuckDuckGo has also been going downhill because certain search modifiers don't work anymore. Microsoft raised the price of API queries which in turn made it too expensive for DuckDuckGo to maintain certain ones. I mostly enjoyed it because it gives you access to Bing's search results without the user-hostile UX garbage Microsoft loves to put on all its products. These days I'm using Kagi. It's been about six months now and I'm really enjoying it.
I'd be curious to understand what Qwant brings extra to the table compared to DDG. Backend is the same, results seem quite similar and it's missing some things like math and conversion quick tools.
and then there is monocles 👍