The French Search Engine Alternative to Google (alternativeto.net)

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[-] SecondaryAnnetagonist 24 points 4 months ago

Another Bing reskin. Put it with the Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and the others.

If you want something that actually operates on something new under the hood consider https://marginalia-search.com/ which operates out of Sweden (though has a feature set more resembling early to mid 00s google).

[-] FundMECFSResearch 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you want a european operated google reskin. Try https://startpage.com/ from the netherlands.

I understand the preference for completely independent search engines. But these private search engines that don’t sell your data and use google/bing API are still a massive step up from just using google/bing.

Personally I use duckduckgo (bing API) to search websites, and startpage (Google API) to search images.

That website you shared is cool. I’m going to bookmark it. But it’s performance is massively inferior to commercial search engines unfortunately. And it keeps your IP and searches for 24 hours, which is a little inferior to a no logs policy. I love that it prioritises non-commercial results though!

[-] Novocirab@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

For anyone wondering how to use Startpage image search through the URL line: In Vivaldi, the URL string to use is: https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?cat=images&q=%25s

If you're using another browser, you may need to replace the placeholder string "%s" by a different one.

[-] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

This is not really true.

https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/

Also: https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Mojeek is also a very good alternative, from the UK 🇬🇧 - however, it is keyword based, so there's that.

[-] Shyze3D@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately, it uses the Bing search index. Would have loved a search engine truly independent from American tech companies.

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

There's Mojeek: mojeek.com

[-] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Still not independent, but getting there 😉

https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/

https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/

[-] Shyze3D@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago

Did some research and learnt that Qwant and Ecosia are working on an independent search index

https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/index.html

[-] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/search-engines

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