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Big Tech Can't Track This Search Engine (SearXNG) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago by perishthethought@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Google Search is dead to me, so I self-hosted my own private, ad-free, AI-free alternative instead. Here's everything you need to know about SearXNG.

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[–] voxel@feddit.org 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Companies like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and StartPage pay Bing and Google to use their search index/API to get search results.

DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and StartPage fund themselves through search advertising.

Brave Search uses its own search index, which they also sell access to, and they fund themselves through search advertising or an optional ad-free premium subscription.

SearXNG scrapes the search results without providing any monetary value to the search engine providers who are offering the service.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How dare we take what Google has rightfully stolen! That could cause Google to lose money and even go out of business!

[–] voxel@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

I think you confuse search engines with AI. Search engines are supposed to index, not “steal”. I also questioned the legality, not what your moral compass is saying.