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just realized whoogle is dead now (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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google search results are still kind of useful especially for non-english language queries, anyone knows a good alternative?

searxng also doesn't really seem to work these days..

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[–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

All of this when you get the super excellent Kagi for 10 dollars, from an actual search company that values privacy.

Its exactly what everyone wants but no, can't pay 10 dollars I guess. :)

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    from an actual search company that values privacy.

    California company obliged by FVEY? While I appreciate their efforts, American based companies kind of have a history of abandoning their privacy-respecting ways once subpoenaed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    To be honest, this is one of those times where I would say that it's not that bad. Can't expect a company to outright violate the laws of the country they're registered in, you need to be friends with Trump to do that. If they keep their shit away from all the corpo vultures and only comply with direct subpoenas, it's probably the best we can hope for.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    yes but that's kind of the point. I don't want to deal with a company which is beholden to the law of gangsters. I might not hold it against them but also it is a huge competitive disadvantage for a privacy based product.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    So, if I can choose between a company that fucks me over with their search ranking, sells my data and still tries to present me bought ads as actual results, and is required to provide all this information to a corrupt goverment; versus a company that minimizes the amount of collected data, so they don't have to hand over so many information while being supoenad, I choose the 2nd option

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I fear that this all-or-nothing attitude brings more harm than good. If leads to the thinking that if nothing is perfect nothing should be done anyway. More than once people were saying to me that they've read that they can get your data anyway so there is no difference between a firefox with adblock on linux and google chrome on windows 11 with all the trackers active.
    And this is exactly the attitude that those who are selling our data want us to have.

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