Previously I was looking for search engine that turned out it wasnt worth remembering afterall. As people helped, i thought its easier to just list every site its not. The site I was looking for turned out to be maintained by some rightwing assholes, but I thought maybe it could still be useful as it collects scrapers from many engines into one site. But since it apparently blocks lqbt domains, its basically worthless since who knows what else it blocks. Apparently anything those fucks touch is tainted.
I tried describing the site based on what I remembered and how it appeared to me. now it feels shameful even leaving it as context. The picture gets conveyed through the comments anyway for those interested.
I’m sorry it ended up like this, I should probably have done this much eariler and not give the site any benefit of the doubt.
So, instead lets make this into list of search engines so this post might have at least something positive about it. I already started gathering the list earlier as by product of the unfortunate search. It might be better to just scrap this all and start with new post but it would also erase what happened and the lesson learned.
I know there are lists already, but I dont think they all have every engine, especially smaller or newer ones. We could also gather information about engines’ maintainers, stuff that helps determine what to expect from them. I’ll try gathering it here on this post from the comments and if I find something myself.
Lets avoid all ai searchers since those ought to be in their own category anyway.
List of search engines
- bing
- kagi
- yacy
- ask.com
- searx
- brave
- ecosia
- mojeek
- duckduckgo
- marginalia
- startpage
- giburu
- yippy
- qwant
it is 4get.ca for sure, which for some reason when I loaded it contains an image of superfascist Julius Evola as its meme like picture
That sounds… concerning… I dont know people like that by face or name so this is good to know.
Now i wonder if it was that good search engine afterall if they thought that was good idea. It doesnt seem to push anything malign when i searched lqbt as test, but after knowing what you told I dont feel like I can fully trust the site anyway.
it’s a meta of some kind, like SearXNG; you can edit the way in which that works but… who knows? I hadn’t seen this image on it before today.