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.
4get.ca maybe?
yes! that was it! thank you!
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.