On 24/10/2026 17:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2026-10-24 at 13:49 +0200, Iyán Méndez Veiga wrote:
you want to be "100% Europe" and avoid USA, yet even the
minimalist version depends on libraries from Google [1, 2] and the
default search engine is DuckDuckGo [3], a US company. This is not to
say that I agree with your goal, but to show that you are already
inconsistent.

Do you know of a European search engine that's any good?

Basically, you can forget about search engines other than the big, well-
known ones.

A prime example of why you always end up with the "evil" search engines.
I just tried out https://www.mojeek.com/ (an European search engine)
first with search queries about Arch Linux, the hits were ok, and then I
thought I'd try something a little sensational. Adolf Hitler's former
tea house burned down last night/this morning, so I searched for
"hitlers teehaus". I only looked at the search results on the first two
pages, Hitler's tea house was found, but there was no mention that it
had burned down. In contrast, https://www.google.com was on the first
page, as expected, with breaking news. https://duckduckgo.com was also
on the first page with breaking news. A news item like this, featuring a
keyword such as "Hitler", is not an extremely rare niche product, nor is
it a little-known academic paper. I also searched for images related to
the AUR using https://www.mojeek.com/, but no images matching the topic
were found, instead, I was directed to the usual search engines like
DDG, Google, etc., which immediately returned a vast number of images
related to the AUR we're familiar with.

This as turned into a completely off topic discussions yet again [1].
Please take non-AUR related discussions elsewhere, or the ML will go into moderation mode!

@Rafl: On a related note, the multiple H*tl*r mentions in your last answer above were not only fully off-topic but also totally uncalled for and highly inappropriate! As per our Code Of Conduct [2] I'm hereby asking you to stop using such references immediately! There was absolutely no reason to take this example over another one. Consider this your last warning!

[1] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/S5ZXIFNMEQSI3L24WJDIMLAPCVBQ5TOU/ [2] https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/code-of-conduct/#controversycontroversial-topics

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Regards,
Robin Candau / Antiz

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