DuckDuckGo is only a meta search engine, they don’t have their own index. They use bing’s indexes and thus have very similar results, which are more often than not terriblecrap absolute dogshit, SEO manipulated and completely unhelpful and you need to sift through them.
I would know, I use it on the daily and am currently looking for an alternative.
Searx looks most promising but I haven’t really dived into it. Well… Ever.
And DuckDuckGo still has me somewhat won over because html.duckduckgo.com exists and something that I can call peak web design (no joke I truly love it): lite.duckduckgo.com
SearX or even better, SearXNG is probably the best option right now. But it is still just a metasearch engine. Unfortunately, currently there is no real FOSS option with its own index that is usable.
DuckDuckGo is only a meta search engine, they don’t have their own index. They use bing’s indexes and thus have very similar results, which are more often than not
terriblecrapabsolute dogshit, SEO manipulated and completely unhelpful and you need to sift through them.I would know, I use it on the daily and am currently looking for an alternative.
Searx looks most promising but I haven’t really dived into it. Well… Ever.
And DuckDuckGo still has me somewhat won over because html.duckduckgo.com exists and something that I can call peak web design (no joke I truly love it): lite.duckduckgo.com
SearX or even better, SearXNG is probably the best option right now. But it is still just a metasearch engine. Unfortunately, currently there is no real FOSS option with its own index that is usable.