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Most of them (ecosia, startpage, searx, metager, etc.)
proxy google/bing search or both - aka metasearch engines.
Mojeek and brave seem to have own *proprietary* crawlers.
Didn't use Million Short as an offer to create an account makes me scratch my head.
A standalone option is distributed search engine called YaCy, but it's rather
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@Tutanota personally i’m a brave search kinda girl.
independent index, no ties to google (unless you let it) or bing unlike most of these
ai is optional (you don’t have to add “-ai” every time, i switched it off once first use and never saw it again)
and it brings up the convert tool quickly when you search what something is in a different unit of measurement, like so (only SE other than google i know of that does that):
Yeah I was using Brave search very recently. I opted for it because as far as I can recall, they have their own crawlers/indexers or whatever they're called.
I switched recently to self-hosting SearXNG and although SearXNG doesn't have its own crawlers, I can still use Brave search results (and basically most other search engine results) that I want.
Admittedly though, I'm lazy and my solution isn't as polished as Brave.
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@Tutanota do you by any chance know some good alternatives to google scholar?
@naerrischerTuk
Semantic scholar is the closest alternative that I use, it is a nonprofit
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