[Edit: actually, they use Brave] Good Search, German search engine independent from US Tech. Did anyone know them?

https://good-search.org/en/?q

More details https://good-search.org/about/en/

First time I hear about it

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11 Comments

Delascas@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

There is only one search engine in Europe that ONLY serves results from their own crawlers: https://www.mojeek.com/

All the others (qwant, startpage, swisscows . . ) merge results from Bing or Google or Brave.

Be warned: you will NOT get the same search results with mojeek . .

NKBTN@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y

Hear, hear. Honestly it's not particularly good as a search engine - but it does give you very different results

skepller@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

At least until Qwant and Ecosia finish their European Index, slated to start rolling out this year.

buyeuropean@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y

Thanks for the info! Added to the database.

CAVOK@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Never heard of them either. Slightly disappointed that they redirect to google-maps instead of a more free alternative. Will check them out though.

Shyze3D@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Ah, sad to hear.

Also FYI, your content got tagged as German, you might want to check your account settings: https://feddit.nl/post/29633145

Shyze3D@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

No worries, trying to help. The platform has some quirks. Feel free if you have questions, here are a few pointers that can help you settle in

noodlejetski@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

BAD

AndreasRenner@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hi, we are a Berlin based social enterprise with a small team, working to a great extent pro bono (making less noise as others with a huge marketing budget). We made a radical move last year and step by step eliminated all US-American big tech components and, as a logical consequence turned GOOD Search into an ad-free search engine (as Google and Microsoft control the entire search engine advertising market). Find here a nice recent article about us: https://en.reset.org/the-good-search-engine-web-search-without-advertising-benefits-users-and-the-climate/

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

Are you the CEO of Good Search? Thank you for chiming in, would you like to do an AskMeAnything?

sandtoffel@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 1y

Nice, might give this a try. Currently using Kagi, which works great, but is American and much more expensive.