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How-to: Internet

This is a must read for the entire family, hence it's compiled from pirated articles posted all over saidit. (just one for now, the one who warranted making this pipe-dream¹ come to reality)

Search Engines

Search Wars: Consider Supporting these Independent Search Engines²

While services like Startpage and DuckDuckGo do enhance your privacy, they do not provide you results outside of the corporate tech giant "filter bubble" which has recently been proven to exist, for Google at least.

The search engines listed below do not source their results from Google or Bing or Yahoo or anyone. They crawl the web themselves and use this data to maintain their own search indexes.

YaCy

Site: https://yacy.net/en/index.html
Demo search: http://yacy.searchlab.eu (YaCy tries to remove themselves from the equation to remain decentralized, like bosses, that's why they discourage relying on this url)
Subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/YaCy/

It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world’s users.

Mojeek

https://www.mojeek.com/
Subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/mojeek/

Mojeek is true search engine with its own crawler. In an open reddit discussion, Mojeek claimed to have indexed 2.3 billion pages, with the goal of doubling that by the end of the year. For those who want complete search independence from the corporate data monoliths of Google and Bing, Mojeek offers an interesting proposition.

Gigablast

https://gigablast.com/
FindX attempted to use this code to start their own search service and threw in the towel later: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9vq66p/rip_findx_the_private_search_engine_based_in/

Gigablast is a free and open-source web search engine and directory. Founded in 2000, it is an independent engine and web crawler based in New Mexico, developed and maintained by Matt Wells, a former Infoseek employee and New Mexico Tech graduate.

As an open source engine, Gigablast is not expected to differentially treat any domain of search topic. As of January 2018, the ISGP site was hit #9 hit on Gigablast for the search term "Dutroux affair" (and was also in the top 10 for Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex). By contrast Google, StartPage and Ask.com all appeared to have blocked the domain for that search term - not listing it in the top 100 hits.

Others

Wiby - https://wiby.me/ - closed source, small index size

So there are basically only 3 independent search engines. We are all at desperate risk of losing access to world history and critical information and knowledge.

If anyone is aware of other independent search engines, please post them up. Beware that many services source some or all of their results from one of the big guys and don't really make it clear, so do some digging first.

References:

¹ It's a Dutch and GNU/linux joke all the while it's also normiespeak

² In case you didn't click, it's from here: https://saidit.net/s/Internet/comments/wvk/search_wars_consider_supporting_these_independent/

# How-to: Internet

This is a must read for the entire family, hence it's compiled from pirated articles posted all over saidit. (just one for now, the one who warranted making this pipe-dream^1 come to reality)

## Search Engines

OR

[Search Wars: Consider Supporting these Independent Search Engines](https://saidit.net/s/Internet/comments/wvk/search_wars_consider_supporting_these_independent/)^2

While services like Startpage and DuckDuckGo do enhance your privacy, they do not provide you results outside of the corporate tech giant "filter bubble" which has recently been proven to exist, for Google at least.

The search engines listed below do not source their results from Google or Bing or Yahoo or anyone. They crawl the web themselves and use this data to maintain their own search indexes.

### YaCy

* Site: https://yacy.net/en/index.html

* Demo search: http://yacy.searchlab.eu (YaCy tries to remove themselves from the equation to remain decentralized, like bosses, that's why they discourage relying on this url)

* Subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/YaCy/

> It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world’s users.

### Mojeek

* https://www.mojeek.com/

* Subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/mojeek/

> Mojeek is true search engine with its own crawler. In an open reddit discussion, Mojeek claimed to have indexed 2.3 billion pages, with the goal of doubling that by the end of the year. For those who want complete search independence from the corporate data monoliths of Google and Bing, Mojeek offers an interesting proposition.

### Gigablast

* https://gigablast.com/
   
* FindX attempted to use this code to start their own search service and threw in the towel later: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9vq66p/rip_findx_the_private_search_engine_based_in/

> Gigablast is a free and open-source web search engine and directory. Founded in 2000, it is an independent engine and web crawler based in New Mexico, developed and maintained by Matt Wells, a former Infoseek employee and New Mexico Tech graduate.

> As an open source engine, Gigablast is not expected to differentially treat any domain of search topic. As of January 2018, the ISGP site was hit #9 hit on Gigablast for the search term "Dutroux affair" (and was also in the top 10 for Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex). By contrast Google, StartPage and Ask.com all appeared to have blocked the domain for that search term - not listing it in the top 100 hits.

### Others

* [Wiby](https://wiby.me/) - https://wiby.me/ - closed source, small index size


**So there are basically only 3 independent search engines. We are all at desperate risk of losing access to world history and critical information and knowledge.**

If anyone is aware of other independent search engines, please post them up. Beware that many services source some or all of their results from one of the big guys and don't really make it clear, so do some digging first.

References:

* https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine/

* https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Gigablast

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigablast

^1 It's a Dutch and GNU/linux joke all the while it's also normiespeak

^2 In case you didn't click, it's from here: https://saidit.net/s/Internet/comments/wvk/search_wars_consider_supporting_these_independent/

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