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Based on this, if you have a distaste for censorship, you probably should use Brave Search instead of DuckDuckGo. [1]

Also, if you are using DuckDuckGo to avoid gargantuan corporations, you should know that they are essentially Bing with some extra perks. Brave Search has its own index, it only falls back to Bing when it doesn't have enough results (which they claim happens only for a minority of queries).

[1]: https://nitter.net/BrendanEich/status/1501978488043020292#m



Falls back to Google actually and semi-independent as explained here: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...


Thanks for the interesting link. It might be slightly outdated about Brave Search though. In the tweet I linked to above they say:

> For <10% of queries where we don't have good results, we rely on Bing presently, so that fallback could be censored.


Google fallback is opt-in, Bing fallback is automatic.


As soon as Brave has more than a handful of users, they will quickly metamorphize into their Do Evil phase. We are currently watching that transformation at DDG. The point is that there is no place left to turn to.




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