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Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was wondering what the hell was going on this morning.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Seems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Alexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Brave does have an option to use anonymous Google results as a fallback if their index doesn't return enough results, but it will ask you before it does it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing 😀

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I just read your profile and can't believe you guys have been on lemmy for 3 years. What made you guys join before lemmy got popular?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

people interested in alternative search tend to be in spaces that aren't your GAFAM big tech networks, we've been on masto since 2018 also

not to come off as overly dismissive of people elsewhere, but you also find that the quality of discourse and people's willingness to think about things are both considerably more elevated

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

🙂👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Nice! Mojeek looks great. Thanks for the tip!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kagi.com has its own I believe. But you have to pay a subscription to use it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that Kagi relies on the likes of Bing and Google but since it uses more than one of them it can keep functioning if one goes down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

TIL. I thought they had their own crawler. I’m a little disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They do both, their own index focuses on the "small web", more info here:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html