Hello,
I am a new user of Trisquel 7.0. I just got it installed for the first
time on my laptop and I chose to use GNUIceCat as my browser of choice since
it asked me if I'd like to switch after I finished installing it. I see that
it uses DuckDuckGo as it's default search engine. I als
May be you are looking for something like this -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
Find more "Open"source search engines in a list by Wikipedia here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Open_source_search_engines
By querying a search engine's database for information, you are not
'running' it, but merely sifting through the data you requested from it.
The search engine's servers have already collected this data, and so
requesting information from a server isn't SaaS, as pointed out by
lcerf. If they run pro
I use https://searx.me
hidden instance: http://www.ulrn6sryqaifefld.onion/
. your hidden instance link doesn't work.
It's a Tor hidden service. You have to be using Tor to access it.
Oh, I see. I haven't gotten that far yet with Trisquel or Tor yet.
> The only issue with search engines is privacy- and
GNU like DuckDuckGo for a reason.
Ruben and some other people in the free software community may like
DuckDuckGo, but saying "GNU likes DuckDuckGo" is misleading. It's not like
DuckDuckGo is the officially approved search engine by the fre
The problem with DuckDuckGo is that it's highly centralized, just like Google
is - everyone connects to one provider, which means all search queries can be
logged in one centralized database and associated with you. The same problem
is true with Ixquick and Startpage.
Seeks and Searx are b
I believe YaCy is supposed to eliminate tracking and censorship. I have tried
it for a short while. It was nice and appeared to work well, except that the
results were generally very bad and uncomparable to those of DuckDuckGo and
the likes.
To which the fanatics say- freedom over convenience.
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