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The French Search Engine Alternative to Google (alternativeto.net)
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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you want a european operated google reskin. Try https://startpage.com/ from the netherlands.

I understand the preference for completely independent search engines. But these private search engines that don’t sell your data and use google/bing API are still a massive step up from just using google/bing.

Personally I use duckduckgo (bing API) to search websites, and startpage (Google API) to search images.

That website you shared is cool. I’m going to bookmark it. But it’s performance is massively inferior to commercial search engines unfortunately. And it keeps your IP and searches for 24 hours, which is a little inferior to a no logs policy. I love that it prioritises non-commercial results though!