List of search engines
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
Link to list of searchengines, provided by irenesteam in the comments
Old post text for history. This post turned out to become quite a mess.
Might it still be in your browser history somewhere?
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.
4get.ca maybe?
it is 4get.ca for sure, which for some reason when I loaded it contains an image of superfascist Julius Evola as its meme like picture
That sounds.. concerning.. I dont know people like that by face or name so this is good to know.
Now i wonder if it was that good search engine afterall if they thought that was good idea. It doesnt seem to push anything malign when i searched lqbt as test, but after knowing what you told I dont feel like I can fully trust the site anyway.
yes! that was it! thank you!
Sorry to say this, but the search engine that fits your 4 bullet points the best is Bing.
it was custom made captcha. It was literally called intelligence test in slightly insulting fashion. It was definitely not in anyway corporation affiliated website. The pictures on mainsite were random meme like pictures in a box above the search field.
I really hope that one commenter isnt literally only one in lemmy who knows about it.
I started to down vote you, but with the verification stuff Bing does make sense.
Kagi doesn't do that
Bing is also the only search engine I know that plasters their site with images.
Gibiru isn't on your list of things it isn't. Maybe that one?
Yippy and Qwant maybe... though not sure how many of your criteria they satisfy as I haven't used them.
none of those, but at this point i'm also happy to add to the list. The one i'm looking for must come up eventually.
Is it kagi?
My guess is kagi
Maybe YaCy?
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
That link mentions every search engine which is already on your list plus a whole lot more search engines. That link's list is regularly maintained. It may be one of the most comprehensive lists which you will be able to find.
that is much better than anything i could have hoped to achieve with this post. Though now i wonder what i should even do with the post since its pretty much useless now beyond sharing the link you provided.
Its probably best to just store the old text away in spoiler tags and put your link to the top so its easy to find, i'll credit you for providing it.
You could certainly put in some time to review various search engines against a set of criteria. Since we are in the Privacy forum, I would think you could consider looking at privacy aspects.
For example, the following website does some simple evaluation by listing their criteria. But their list of reviewed search engines is far from complete. https://privacy-checkup.info/en/recommendations/search-engines One nice touch is they listed when a search engine is hosted on Big Tech services, meaning that Big Tech will still be watching what you do.
A good website to see what servers are being used by a website can be found at the following link, giving you a useful criterion to start with. https://hosting-checker.net/
You could also use a tool to see if third party JavaScript connections get made when visiting a website, which might indicate additional tracking is being done. One possible way is to install https://ublockorigin.com/ and use the "I am an Advanced user" option. Listing these third party JavaScript connections could be your second criteria.
If you are willing to put in the time, I think it would be a useful and unique contribution to the Internet to evaluate a lot of search engines for their privacy aspects.
ask.com ?
Startpage?
Commonly recommended ones are Kagi, SearX, and Brave. Any of those ones what you are looking for? I've never used any of them myself, so can't say if they meet your criteria or not
no, it wasnt any of the common ones. I doubt it would be on any list like that, it seemed really niche