Some time ago I came across some comment in lemmy that suggested a search engine that doesn’t do the usual bullshit others do and doesn’t track you.

I tried it and it seemed pretty good. It didnt filter or manage what it showed you, it just searched and gave you the list like search engines used to do.

I set it up as my homepage so i can use it easily as another search, but now my browsers homepage has been reset and i didn’t have it saved anywhere else. So, i’m asking here if any of you know what this search engine was called. I already tried searching lemmy for the comment, but all i have to go on is “search engine”. If I cant find it by asking here, i dont think i’m finding it again at all.

Here is what i remember about it:

  • address was quite short, just one word or couple of combined letters.
  • every now and then you had to do “intelligence test” to deter bots. It was usually custom captcha where you have to select which pictures are minecraft related or which pictures have some anime girl or something like that.
  • mainpage had meme pictures and stuff like that. Occasionally somewhat nsfw pictures.
  • it didnt have any monetisation or anything like that. At least i didnt notice.
  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Sounds like some small, private website that simply had any search engine’s input field embedded.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      yea, it was likely some quite small website. But results it displayed was… not necessarily really good but it didnt use any of the big search engines, when i compared the results with same search words it was different enough to be potentially useful as alternative search if some bigger engine seemed to not want to show something, be it censorship, search engine optimization fuckery or something else.

      • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        You know, usually that difference simply comes from using a search engine directly (so it can store cookies and know your IP address and country) vs. using it via proxy website, where it doesn’t know anything about you.