On 01/04/13 01:42, [email protected] wrote:
I love both search engines, especially DuckDuckGo when I can quickly
use a ! and search a crapload of sites and Startpage is pretty
reliable. Both sites don't track you and allow you to search
Google's and Bing's search engines in the most private way possible
through http or https.
The big problem though is that DuckDuckGo is reliant on Bing and
Startpage is reliant on Google. I know that many of you don't
support the ethics of either company, but are you comfortable in
having some reliance on them no matter what?
I don't know if there are any truely open search engines out there
that don't rely on either two that can come close to the results. I
bet that some of you have known of a couple in the past, but they
were probably low on resources and shut down.
Even if DDG and StartPage shut down like Scroogle did, I'm confident
that others will pop up. Some of the DDG code is made available as free
software as well.
YaCy is an interesting idea, but I have tried using it a number of times
in the past and it has not worked. I mostly got timeout errors on the
homepage.
Andrew.
