• MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        Duckduckgo is bing. They route their searches there afaik. It’s just a privacy layer, like startpage is a privacy layer on Google.

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          1 year ago

          Duckduckgo also has bangs, which I consider an essential feature.

          Although I use SearXNG instead, since their equivalent is a lot more customisable (although less bangs out of the box).

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            1 year ago

            Yep. I was using ddg but just spun up 2 sear instances for myself. (One on vpn one off)

            What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

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              1 year ago

              What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

              Nothing hugely advanced. I added the NixOS wiki to !software_wikis and I also redirect the old wiki to the new wiki (since the former blocks VPNs). I also use the redirect functionality to redirect twitter/reddit etc links to FOSS frontends.

              I’ve also added a bunch of stackexchange sites with their own keywords.

              I’ll add you can also use duckduckgo bangs by using !! e.g. !!protondb.