Previously I was looking for search engine that turned out it wasnt worth remembering afterall. As people helped, i thought its easier to just list every site its not. The site I was looking for turned out to be maintained by some rightwing assholes, but I thought maybe it could still be useful as it collects scrapers from many engines into one site. But since it apparently blocks lqbt domains, its basically worthless since who knows what else it blocks. Apparently anything those fucks touch is tainted.

I tried describing the site based on what I remembered and how it appeared to me. now it feels shameful even leaving it as context. The picture gets conveyed through the comments anyway for those interested.

I’m sorry it ended up like this, I should probably have done this much eariler and not give the site any benefit of the doubt.


So, instead lets make this into list of search engines so this post might have at least something positive about it. I already started gathering the list earlier as by product of the unfortunate search. It might be better to just scrap this all and start with new post but it would also erase what happened and the lesson learned.

I know there are lists already, but I dont think they all have every engine, especially smaller or newer ones. We could also gather information about engines’ maintainers, stuff that helps determine what to expect from them. I’ll try gathering it here on this post from the comments and if I find something myself.

Lets avoid all ai searchers since those ought to be in their own category anyway.

List of search engines

  • bing
  • kagi
  • yacy
  • ask.com
  • searx
  • brave
  • ecosia
  • mojeek
  • duckduckgo
  • marginalia
  • startpage
  • giburu
  • yippy
  • qwant
    • reksas@sopuli.xyzOP
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      11 days ago

      i wish, it has been destroyed multiple times by accident.

      A while ago I set up firefox to delete stuff like cache and temporary files on exit, yet it switched it to everything at some point. On top of that, I used sync to save some of the stuff i have there and of course it saved the misadjusted settings there and wiped the history every time i logged in. I noticed it was sync doing it only the second time it happened and ironically i tried using sync to save the history data. I was quite desperate when i noticed this had happened and tried even system restore, file restore to firefox profile and other files in case it might revert it, but the damage had been done who knows how long ago, so there was nothing to be done. Even on the first time I lost years of data :(

      I have been on lemmy for about 2 years and my current history goes only 4/7/2024. The comment i read must be older than that but not older than 2 years. I wish i had bookmarked it.

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        11 days ago

        Holy moly! I wish you luck in your quest. Please let us know if you figure it out. Every engine I was going to suggest has already been mentioned by others.

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          11 days ago

          my only hope at this point is someone in lemmy knowing about it, so you all will know about it at same time as me if that person replys to this post. At least maybe this post might become useful as list of search engines by process of elimination :D

          I tried browsing through lemmy with searchword “search engine”, but it think the comment was relatively short like “you should try xyz” or something like that. On top of that it was reply to someone elses message.

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          11 days ago

          Hey, someone found the engine i was looking for. It was 4get. Though it was also revealed that the site is run by people who think its good idea to put facist’s face as memepicture there.