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I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

a lot of the current rhetoric around gender reminds me of that anecdote. a lot of people are willing to go "transgender people are oppressed for their gender presentation, therefore if you're not oppressed for your gender presentation, you're not trans." but i don't think we should be defining ourselves by our suffering and oppression. what will we do, in a few years, in a few decades, as there start to be, say, adults who were supported in their transition as children? what will we do when a stereotypical trans person can genuinely say they didn't suffer hardship for being trans?

i'm afraid i know the answer. i'm afraid that people are going to close ranks as they've already started closing ranks against intersex people, against nonbinary people, against double binary people, against closeted people. as some people have started closing ranks against people who transitioned in the opposite direction from them. as many people have closed ranks against people with edge case gender experiences. "i don't consider you to be oppressed, therefore you are not welcome to share in this community you might otherwise belong in."

last song: 1901 by phoenix

currently watching: honestly nothing….i keep knocking out early work has me wiped

currently reading: under the whispering door by tj klune

current obsession: itafushi….this is just the landscape of my brain though tbh

currently working on: getting back into a more regular update schedule for my fics, writing in general honestly

currently wearing: my shirt from mumford and sons at fenway 😛

last search: where to watch how i met your mother 2026…

favorite flower: i’m fond of lilacs :3

last song: He’s My Man by Luvcat, been listening to a lot of obsessive love songs lately

currently watching: nothing tbh, I keep meaning to start things and forgetting ;w;

currently reading: Leviathan Wakes by James A. Corey

current obsession: jjk swap au……. I keep thinking of them in various situations………

currently working on: character sheets and attacks for artfight ^^ (two weeks late I know) also getting back into writing

currently wearing: grey t-shirt and black and white check pyjama pants

last search: is granulated garlic the same as garlic powder

favorite flower: havent really thought about it tbh ;-; I like wisteria

last song: drugs by EDEN (so underrated omg please go listen)

currently watching: RuPaul's drag race all stars season 4 and I just started rewatching House as well

currently reading: The Hopkins Manuscript by R. C. Sheriff (shit is starting to go down and i'm scared to keep reading bc i know it will make me sad. guy loves his chickens so much and the world is ending)

current obsession: stardew valley, masterchef, green stuffed olives (i can eat a whole jar in one sitting)

currently working on: artfight attacks, next chapter of Tokyo, learning the insane guitar solo at the end of Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd) on piano

currently wearing: really cute pink silk leopard print pj's from victorias secret (the bottoms are super short shorts that look like a frilly skirt. I cant go downstairs unless i'm wearing my robe bc my whole entire ass is Out)

last search: bruschetta pasta recipe (I need to make some)

favourite flower: lupins and carnations (not a symbolism thing, I just think theyre pretty)

last song: 君の銀の庭 (Kimi no gin no niwa) by kalafina. this is the ending song of the madoka magica rebellion movie which I rewatched recently and I am in love with both.

currently watching: didnt start anything new after the madoka rewatch.

currently reading: again, didnt start anything new yet. my last book was Metamorphosis though.

current obsession: I am very deep in the alnst chambers. the release of zombie stage is not helping.

currently working on: artfight, polishing my animated short for school even more, an unrelated fan animatic, remember the rize animation I had been doing? that also

currently wearing: pajamas, which is an old tshirt and loose pants

last search: googling the song's name so I write it correctly here lol

favorite flower: ? I never thought about that... I liked this flower that grew in front of my apartment that would bloom at night when I was a kid. Their turkish name was "akşam sefası" but I couldnt find their equivalent english name. so species name "Mirabilis jalapa" it is.

wow everyones tagged already...

last song: "Bag of Bones" by Mitski

currently watching: Several anime bc of the new season, but notably Goodbye, Lara and Though I Am An Inept Villainess

currently reading: I'm listening to A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark but am still early on in the book, I'm e-reading Annie Bot by Sierra Greer (absolutely devouring it lol, robot women are my fave), and physically reading London's Calling by Adam Brink.

current obsession: ngl I'm super excited about Bridgerton and the upcoming lesbian season.

currently working on: Various writing projects that I keep bouncing between XD

currently wearing: Tank top and shorts, it's been hot

last search: "Vampire Syndicate: Gangs of MoonFall", I saw a tumblr post about this game and got curious enough to look it up.

favorite flower: Hard to choose a favorite, but I enjoy daffodils and carnations! And crocuses.

currently watching: been going through buffy (season four!) and deep space nine (season one!) with my friend lately! it's been a good time

currently reading: i'm at the same point i get stuck at in the two towers every time i read the series, which is where it's just sam frodo gollum wandering around the mountains for ages. i'll get there someday. but i'm also looking forward to starting strange pictures by uketsu so !!

current obsession: the other thing i've been reading, which is the 70s claremont x-men comics (and of course x-men more generally)! x-men have always been a fave of mine and i'm having a phenomenal time with them, which i've never read before. magneto is back and oh boy he's up to something!

currently working on: a visual novel with a couple of friends (mermaid toxic yuri!) and the early stages of planning a novel! about Ghosts and Big Houses and Bad Sibling Relationships, i think

currently wearing: my comfy linen pants :) beat the heat!

last search: lactaid. i had some delicious ice cream and demons enacted cruelty upon my physical form

favorite flower: oh man i dunno. i like scilla! i like dandelions. i like the native flowers in my yard

no pressure tags: @jofiah @tangerineginie @meggydolaon @gravitonbeamemitter @treespeaking and anyone else who wants to! :)

Last Song: the store I'm at was just playing Buwan by Juan Karlos is that anything lol

Currently Watching: Veeeery slowly going through Trollhunters XD but I suppose a more accurate answer is that I put on Haydunn's pokemon videos as a sort of background watch when I'm doing something

Currently Reading: I finished Thorn Season quite recently and just caught up with the Spy x Family manga the other day :3c I haven't really started another thing since lol. Manga wise, I plan to pick up where I left off in Love Bullet and Frieren, but next on my reading list is The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley

Current Obsession: Have any of you heard of the hit game Fire Emblem Awakening for the 3DS and more importantly have you seen fRobin Fire Emblem 🥰🥰🥰 She has been my favorite chew toy for like. 3 years now??

That aside, I've gotten reaaally into Witch Hat Atelier :3c Tho as the first obsession has been a persistent brain fungus, I cannot shake the thought that Qifrey looks a lot like mRobin XD Reading the manga and watching the anime just has me going "that's Robin 🧍🫵" at consistent intervals.

In a related problem perhaps entirely unique to myself, I keep getting "Qifrey" and "Fikri" mixed up in my head whenever I think about them lmao

Anyways I would like for Robin to have all of Qifrey's damage pretty please ^w^ Shirahama has made an art form out of whumping that man and I want it on my blorbo STAT 😤😤😤

Currently Working On: three different Chrobin aus apparently!

Currently Wearing: a robotics shirt I got as a freebie from being a friend's +1 at an invention fair XD I know jackshit about robotics

Last Search: Anisocytosis XD I've been working at a hospital for the past month and my search history is riddled with it lmao

Favorite Flower: I don't actually know either, I'm not a flower person >w< I like plumerias I suppose, their local name here is kalachuchi which I think is adorable <3

Last song: Creep, by Radiohead (im in a mood dw about it) - acoustic version!!

Currently watching: Supernatural, Criminal Minds, Haunted Hotel (the Netflix show)

Currently reading: The Secret War Against Hate, American resistance to antisemitism and white supremacy by Steven J Ross

Current obsession: modding Minecraft with way too many horror mods to scare the everloving shit out of my easily spooked best friends

Currently working: on getting back into writing again, planning for upcoming my birthday, and getting outside more often!

Currently wearing: nightmare before Christmas pj's and my favorite hoodie

Last search: my ao3 history is between me and the gods. You can pry it from my cold dead hands! On a more serious note, I recently learned of a horror comedy movie called "Zombie Strippers" and my incredulity at the title (mixed with morbid curiosity) led me to search up the synopsis.

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

can someone explain what he's talking about i got distracted by his giant jiggling honkers badonkers

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Anyway my friend had some not so nice teeth and during dinner the father of his fwb was like “you work where you work, you sleep with him and his teeth look like that? Get him an appointment.”and then bounced. So his fwb made him an appointment at the practice she managed and my friend ended up needing like 3k worth of dental work and his friend with benefits just gave it to him for free.

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!