☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to [email protected]English • 4 days agoTurns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1158arrow-down1imageTurns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company.lemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to [email protected]English • 4 days agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•4 days agoIt does, it’s completely anonymised tho, and they pull in results from Yahoo and other sources (even Yandex). So while they do use the Bing API their results can be pretty vastly different from Bing’s.
minus-squareP03 LockelinkfedilinkEnglish3•4 days agoIs there a search engine that doesn’t leech off of some huge corporate API?
minus-squareMattlinkfedilinkEnglish2•3 days agoBrave uses their own index. Qwant and Ecosia have partnered to build their own index as well.
I thought duckduckgo used bing’s API?
It does, it’s completely anonymised tho, and they pull in results from Yahoo and other sources (even Yandex). So while they do use the Bing API their results can be pretty vastly different from Bing’s.
Is there a search engine that doesn’t leech off of some huge corporate API?
Brave uses their own index. Qwant and Ecosia have partnered to build their own index as well.