hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 5 months agoBing outage shows just how little competition Google search really hasarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarehedge@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 months agoSeems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think…
minus-squarebrie@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 months agoAlexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.
minus-squareFubarberry@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoBrave does have an option to use anonymous Google results as a fallback if their index doesn’t return enough results, but it will ask you before it does it.
Seems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think…
Alexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.
Brave does have an option to use anonymous Google results as a fallback if their index doesn’t return enough results, but it will ask you before it does it.