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Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If you believe Google is the most reliable, you can still use it in a private way via :

Startpage

Startpage is a private search engine known for serving Google and Bing search results. One of Startpage's unique features is the Anonymous View, which puts forth efforts to standardize user activity to make it more difficult to be uniquely identified. The feature can be useful for hiding some network and browser properties.

https://www.startpage.com/

SearxNG https://searxng.org/

SearXNG is an open-source, self-hostable, metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing any information itself.

There's plenty of public instances too https://searx.space/

Whoogle https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Get Google search results, but without any ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file.

Couple of public instances too. Basically SearxNG with ONLY google as a source. https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Startpage got sold out to an ad company. I think the best option is just to use SearxNG

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

They do, but it's still separated from that business. At worse, it's more an ethical issue of using something that an Ad company own, exactly like using Google with or without proxies services. https://web.archive.org/web/20210118031008/https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Thank you

Any alternative to Google Alerts?

Long time looking for such service which monitors web for keywords.