It turns out that DuckDuckGo is essentially a Bing frontend. Not only that, but there was also an instance where they hid Microsoft trackers in their browser. 💀

Startpage, on the other hand, is literally pulling all its search results from Google, and it's owned by an advertising company. 💀

Neither of them has its own index. 

You know who does? Brave Search, or at least they're actively building one. I believe this is the solution we need: new search indexes instead of relying on Big Tech. 

So, Brave Search is now the new web search engine on NostrNet.work , it's good enough for most of the people imo. 

 I always knew there was something fishy about DDG 

 Ducky 

 They have some kind of pedo/4chan origin too 

 They should drop BAT for sats 

 BAT is how they get the VC funding  

 I noticed this a while ago when a website of mine won't show up on only those 2 search engines. Wild how easily people trust DDG 

 I lost confidence in them when they started "filtering out misinformation" 

 been using it for years.  Thanks for confirming im not crazy! 

 What’s the source for DuckDuckGo? 

 If you believe them, DDG claim to source results from their own index, plus topic-specific sites and #Bing so apparently it's not just a front-end for Bing. 

P.S. I like #Stract engine, #opensource and independent index:
https://stract.com/
(in development) 

 Brave has privacy issues, but at least they are not as bad as opera.