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Many "alternative" search engines are better for privacy, but they are still vulnerable to censorship, because they rely on g**gle and m*crosoft's indices for their search results. This isn't a deep-hidden secret either, many of them disclose what search index they use on the "about" page, for example:

There are still search engines that (claim to) maintain their own index. Most surprisingly, br*ve:

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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why downvote? That's a fair point. There is a free tier with a few free searches per year (2000 or something). You could sign up and use this budget whenever your search engine of choice fails you.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The free tier is 100 searches one time only.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really? Dangit, I'm misremembering stuff then it seems. Sorry.

[–] crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Your partly right, when I just started using Kagi it was a certain number of free searches per month.