====== Search Engine ======

===== Gopher =====

===== Web =====

==== Notes ====

  * **[[duckduckgo]]** [[https://duckduckgo.com/]]
    * Privacy-friendly-ish, but has some nice features.
    * Results from [[Bing]].
  * **[[Ecosia]]** [[https://www.ecosia.org/]]
    * The one where they plant trees.
    * Uses Bing.
  * **[[Gigablast]]** [[https://www.gigablast.com]]
    * Opensource.
    * o-> __Uses its own index__.
    * Like the results so far.
    * Some kinda affiliation with freenode...
  * **[[Kagi]]** [[https://kagi.com/]]
    * Paid, but has interesting features.
  * **[[Marginalia]]** [[https://search.marginalia.nu/]]
    * 'independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content'
  * **[[Mojeek]]** [[https://www.mojeek.com/]]
    * o-> __Uses own index__.
  * **[[Qwant]]** [[https://www.qwant.com/]]
    * Bing.
  * **[[Searx]]** [[https://searx.space/]]
    * o-> __Self-hostable__ meta search engine.
    * Plenty of public instances up.
  * **[[Startpage]]** [[https://www.startpage.com/]]
    * Google results.
  * **[[Wiby]]** [[https://wiby.me/]] [[https://wiby.org/]]
    * o-> __Has it's own, small index__.
    * So it's mostly small, DIY-type places.
  * **[[Yacy]]** [[https://yacy.net/]]
    * [[p2p]]-based.

  * **[[Openverse]]** [[https://search.openverse.engineering/]]
    * Search creative commons.
  * **[[Yeggi]]** [[https://www.yeggi.com/]]
    * Search engine for 3-D models for [[3-D printing]]

===== Other =====

  * **[[Magnetico]]** [[https://www.boramalper.org/labs/magnetico/]] [[github>boramalper/magnetico]]
    * Search 'the [[BitTorrent]] DHT space, //without relying on any central entity//.'
  * **[[Apollo]]** [[https://apollo.amirbolous.com/]] [[github>amirgamil/apollo]]
    * 'A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint'
    * You put stuff into it. So you can give it a website and it'll scrape stuff off it so you can search it later. You can add tags.
  * **[[Feedle]]** [[https://feedle.world/]]
    * Search RSS feeds. Haven't found anything interesting through it, but you can submit your own feeds.

===== See Also =====

  * [[surfing]]
  * [[https://leetusman.com/nosebook/link-me-up|Search Engines, Platforms and the Past and Future of A Personally-mapped Internet]]
  * [[https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/|A look at search engines with their own indexes]] - Comprehensive comparison of a gazzilion search engines.

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