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With all the talk about privacy, people seem to be forgetting that censorship is also a major problem for today's internet.
(lemmy.world)
Many "alternative" search engines are better for privacy, but they are still vulnerable to censorship, because they rely on g**gle and m*crosoft's indices for their search results. This isn't a deep-hidden secret either, many of them disclose what search index they use on the "about" page, for example:
- https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/
- https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/5138782571796-Why-isn-t-a-particular-site-appearing-in-the-results
- https://www.ecosia.org/privacy
There are still search engines that (claim to) maintain their own index. Most surprisingly, br*ve:
whats the backword R logo?
Yandex
Damn, that's my go-to and I didn't even recognize it's logo. Shows up as a Y on the site for me.
Best reverse image search there is yo
Яндекс
Let me break this down:
Я: “Ya” sound
н: “N” sound
д: “D” sound
е: “Eh” sound
к: “K” sound
с: “S” sound, or “C” sound as in “citrus”
Other fun facts:
I don’t actually know Russian, or any Cyrillic language. You’re welcome. Bonus dog for engagement.
Cyrillic
There is if you use the Cyrillic alphabet because Yandex is Russian