But they've taken over everyone else including my former favorite, swisscows.ch.
I'm putting a new computer together that will become a yacy node to help combat this.
I'm putting a new computer together that will become a yacy node to help combat this.
How to escape Google
Do you belong to the 94% of Internet users who have no clue?Swiss Policy Research
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in reply to Nanook • • •I just read a report about censorship on search engines. The result was, that Google is basically the worst when it comes to that, and the Russian Yandex and, ironically, Microsoft's Bing censor the least. No test of Yacy as OSS alternative was made.
Startpage uses Google, just proxied. DuckDuckGo uses Bing, so you should be fairly ok for now, @Dwayne Parsons.
I do like the idea of YaCy. Imagine if every PC on the net had its own search and crawling and the results would be distributed somehow across all.
Proton seems ok, though hard to tell. May well be another Crypto AG. Who knows. Do use Tor, if you can, to connect, since just recently they were forced to give out the IP address of a user.
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