There are only like 4 actual search indexes online (Google, Bing, Yandex, and I can’t remember the 4th), and every other search engine just uses one or more of those for results.
I think Baidu, Qwant, Mojeek & Brave all use fully independent indices, but there are likely more. This is excliding eg. Kagi who use a combination of their own and other indices.
I actually thought Brave still used Bing, but Mojeek was what I was trying to think of. I’m sure there are a ton more, but those 4 seem like the biggest players most metasearch engines like to use.
Wait, Duck Duck Go is powered by Bing?
Yep, even when bing censors something, it gets censored by DDG aswell, DDG is just a fancy proxy.
There are only like 4 actual search indexes online (Google, Bing, Yandex, and I can’t remember the 4th), and every other search engine just uses one or more of those for results.
stract.com has their own indexer, fully open-source.
I think Baidu, Qwant, Mojeek & Brave all use fully independent indices, but there are likely more. This is excliding eg. Kagi who use a combination of their own and other indices.
I actually thought Brave still used Bing, but Mojeek was what I was trying to think of. I’m sure there are a ton more, but those 4 seem like the biggest players most metasearch engines like to use.
brave search us the fourth