This is pretty much a. Follow up to my post yesterday and was wondering which search engine to use, I’m leaning stlightly towards mullvad as it is a more reputable and they get their results exclusively from braves index but 4get is open source and has an official instance.
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anothermember@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y
The fact that it uses Brave's index is partly what puts me off using Mullvad Leta.
lopar49@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
How come? You can swap to google, but google is bad with censorship. I would have said braves index is the best independent index (other than google). Main reason I won’t use brave is it not being open source search engine. With this I get best of both worlds.
anothermember@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
Well I'm not a fan of Brave or Google as companies for individual reasons, look up about Brave's CEO for example.
I prefer to use an aggregator so at the moment I'm using searxng; the main downside I've found is that instances tend to get blocked from indexes eventually so you do have to move around a bit.
lopar49@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
But this isn’t using brave?
anothermember@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
I mean I would think twice about using them as a single source for search, the same as I would think twice about using Google as a single source. That's why I prefer to use an aggregator.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
4get has more features and supports more indexes.
lopar49@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I get that but I’m honestly not that fussed about features or index’s 99 times out of 100 my search is just a simple one to find a specific website or news article
LWD@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
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lopar49@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I thought whoogle shutdown?
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Used leta for a short period, but it was down annoyingly often
lopar49@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Was this during beta?
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Probably, it was like a month ago
b000urns@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Give Kagi a look -- it's not free though. My free trial has ended but I'm considering shelling out for it.