Opinions on https://search.carrot2.org/#/web ?
After reading this, forking Carrot2 might be a good bet. (Or if SearX would actually work that'd be great!)
https://bin.privacytools.io/?7c60b6276816e282#aMp0g1k4C3rCiQWjwoFVzPUvC7Y7SqtE1/prJkyU4F4=
@freddyym huh, interesting project! I also recently learned that these engines have their own search index while others rely on Google or Bing for results:
- https://www.qwant.com/
- https://www.mojeek.com/
- https://beta.cliqz.com/
- https://www.seznam.cz/
@andreas Never heard of Seznam. Cliqz is adware, I'm fairly sure.
@freddyym yeah it looks like Seznam was the first search engine based in the Czech Republic and you're right about Cliqz; they have a problematic history ugh.
I think MetaGer though may be the only non-profit search engine:
"Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer's own control." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer
@andreas yeah, could be a good option.
