cross: https://lemmy.ml/post/233095

Article is in Italian.

Famous privacy blog Le Alternative (!lealternative@lemmy.ml here on Lemmy) was de-indexed from Bing and from all Bing-dependent search engines, including DuckDuckGo. At the moment it is impossible to search for their useful articles and the reason for this de-indexing is unknown. The owner of the blog is still trying to find out the reason for this removal.

@tardigrada@lemmy.ml
link
fedilink
12
edit-2
3Y

It’s definitely time for Searx MetaSearch or projects like https://yacy.net/

@whititobebe@lemmy.ml
creator
link
fedilink
23Y

Definitely is… The only thing that keeps me going back to DDG is bangs, would love to see this implemented in Searx instances 🙄

BowerickWowbagger
link
fedilink
5
edit-2
3Y
@whititobebe@lemmy.ml
creator
link
fedilink
2
edit-2
3Y

Great, Thanks! Will try it then 😁 It even supports DDG’s ones!

noodlejetski
link
fedilink
03Y

It even supports DDG’s ones!

not really, they just have a few that look similar to DDG’s. for example, the link above shows !wp as a Wikipedia bang, and while it works, DDG’s !w doesn’t.

@whititobebe@lemmy.ml
creator
link
fedilink
0
edit-2
3Y

My source was this paragraph, I don’t know if they are all from DDG, but I tried and some are the same:

!! external bangs

SearXNG supports the external bangs from ddg. To directly jump to a external search page use the !! prefix. To give an example:

search wikipedia by a custom language

  !!wfr Wau Holland

Please note, your search will be performed directly in the external search engine, SearXNG cannot protect your privacy on this.

Create a post

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

  • Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
  • Don’t promote proprietary software
  • Try to keep things on topic
  • If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
  • Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
  • Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

  • 0 users online
  • 14 users / day
  • 18 users / week
  • 24 users / month
  • 15 users / 6 months
  • 20 subscribers
  • 619 Posts
  • 1.56K Comments
  • Modlog