Mullvad leta vs 4get
from lopar49@lemm.ee to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 22 Apr 09:04
https://lemm.ee/post/62057133

This is pretty much a. Follow up to my post yesterday and was wondering which search engine to use, I’m leaning stlightly towards mullvad as it is a more reputable and they get their results exclusively from braves index but 4get is open source and has an official instance.

#degoogle

threaded - newest

anothermember@feddit.uk on 22 Apr 09:33 next collapse

The fact that it uses Brave’s index is partly what puts me off using Mullvad Leta.

lopar49@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 17:14 collapse

How come? You can swap to google, but google is bad with censorship. I would have said braves index is the best independent index (other than google). Main reason I won’t use brave is it not being open source search engine. With this I get best of both worlds.

anothermember@feddit.uk on 22 Apr 20:14 collapse

Well I’m not a fan of Brave or Google as companies for individual reasons, look up about Brave’s CEO for example.

I prefer to use an aggregator so at the moment I’m using searxng; the main downside I’ve found is that instances tend to get blocked from indexes eventually so you do have to move around a bit.

lopar49@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 20:33 collapse

But this isn’t using brave?

anothermember@feddit.uk on 22 Apr 21:06 collapse

I mean I would think twice about using them as a single source for search, the same as I would think twice about using Google as a single source. That’s why I prefer to use an aggregator.

hellfire103@lemmy.ca on 22 Apr 12:04 next collapse

4get has more features and supports more indexes.

lopar49@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 17:08 collapse

I get that but I’m honestly not that fussed about features or index’s 99 times out of 100 my search is just a simple one to find a specific website or news article

mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz on 22 Apr 12:17 next collapse

Used leta for a short period, but it was down annoyingly often

lopar49@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 17:07 collapse

Was this during beta?

mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz on 23 Apr 14:18 collapse

Probably, it was like a month ago

b000urns@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 19:43 next collapse

Give Kagi a look – it’s not free though. My free trial has ended but I’m considering shelling out for it.

LWD@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 22:47 collapse

Either is pretty good. If you’re looking for more diverse options I’d recommend 4get or a half decent Whoogle or SearxNG instance.

But you’re right that you do have to trust the person or group running it, and I think Mullvad has the upper hand there. It’s big enough to attract a crowd, and its caching means the results are extra generic too.

If you’re looking just for Google results, Startpage is… Fine, I think.

Running a VPN makes any of these options much better.

lopar49@lemm.ee on 23 Apr 08:31 collapse

I thought whoogle shutdown?