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Sadly it appears DuckDuckGo has just quit supporting my Tiger running TenFourFox.

I switched to DDG after StartPage (which I use on my more modern Macs)
quit supporting the system a year or so ago.

Google and Bing are reachable in TFF so I went with Bing, anybody but
The Evil Google!

Anybody have any other suggestions for a search engine on vintage Macs? Preferably one that respects your privacy like StartPage and DDG.

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In article <v69f2b$3d9h3$1@dont-email.me>, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>
wrote:

Sadly it appears DuckDuckGo has just quit supporting my Tiger running TenFourFox.

I switched to DDG after StartPage (which I use on my more modern Macs)
quit supporting the system a year or so ago.

Google and Bing are reachable in TFF so I went with Bing, anybody but
The Evil Google!

Anybody have any other suggestions for a search engine on vintage Macs? Preferably one that respects your privacy like StartPage and DDG.

I like using retrosearch.org. It parses a website's content and returns the plain text. You do, however, also get the original URL with each search result,
so you decide if you like the text-only version or JavaScript hell.

And then there's the lovely wiby.org, which is a search engine for the uncommerial / personal web. Think of the WWW in 1999. If you're looking for the
fanpage / enthusiast type of site that Google ditched years ago from its search
results, this is the place to go. Also takes user submissions and offers a nice
"surprise me" feature.
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On 2024-07-08 04:05:37 +0000, Sebastian P. said:

In article <v69f2b$3d9h3$1@dont-email.me>, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>
wrote:

Sadly it appears DuckDuckGo has just quit supporting my Tiger running
TenFourFox.

I switched to DDG after StartPage (which I use on my more modern Macs)
quit supporting the system a year or so ago.

Google and Bing are reachable in TFF so I went with Bing, anybody but
The Evil Google!

Anybody have any other suggestions for a search engine on vintage Macs?
Preferably one that respects your privacy like StartPage and DDG.

I like using retrosearch.org. It parses a website's content and returns the plain text. You do, however, also get the original URL with each search result,
so you decide if you like the text-only version or JavaScript hell.

And then there's the lovely wiby.org, which is a search engine for the uncommerial / personal web. Think of the WWW in 1999. If you're looking for the
fanpage / enthusiast type of site that Google ditched years ago from its search
results, this is the place to go. Also takes user submissions and offers a nice
"surprise me" feature.

Seems wilby.org is redirecting to Bing when I try it on my Mojave
system, what the hell is that about.

I think I'll start using RetroSearch on my Tiger, it's a barebones
interface that TFF can easily handle and it appears the results are
from DDG indirectly. And super fast. Thanks for that tip.

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In article <v69f2b$3d9h3$1@dont-email.me>,
super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

Sadly it appears DuckDuckGo has just quit supporting my Tiger running >TenFourFox.

I switched to DDG after StartPage (which I use on my more modern Macs)
quit supporting the system a year or so ago.

Google and Bing are reachable in TFF so I went with Bing, anybody but
The Evil Google!

Anybody have any other suggestions for a search engine on vintage Macs? >Preferably one that respects your privacy like StartPage and DDG.

How about a SearXNG instance? It proxies your requests to the search
engines you select, and its interface seems like it ought to work on older devices. I run my own instance (it's pretty easy to do if you're familiar
with Docker), but there's also a list of public instances that you could try out to see if it'd work for you:

https://searx.space/
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In article <YL_iO.80069$Gqcd.44669@fx18.iad>,
scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) wrote:

In article <v69f2b$3d9h3$1@dont-email.me>,
super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

Sadly it appears DuckDuckGo has just quit supporting my Tiger running >TenFourFox.

I switched to DDG after StartPage (which I use on my more modern Macs) >quit supporting the system a year or so ago.

Google and Bing are reachable in TFF so I went with Bing, anybody but
The Evil Google!

Anybody have any other suggestions for a search engine on vintage Macs? >Preferably one that respects your privacy like StartPage and DDG.

How about a SearXNG instance? It proxies your requests to the search
engines you select, and its interface seems like it ought to work on older devices. I run my own instance (it's pretty easy to do if you're familiar with Docker), but there's also a list of public instances that you could try out to see if it'd work for you:

https://searx.space/

The list of "instances" isn't loading (just the top menu) but the first
one, https://search.inetol.net/, loads and works OK.
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In article <v6geme$r4q7$1@dont-email.me>, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-07-08 04:05:37 +0000, Sebastian P. said:

In article <v69f2b$3d9h3$1@dont-email.me>, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>
wrote:

Seems wilby.org is redirecting to Bing when I try it on my Mojave
system, what the hell is that about.

That's odd, it shouldn't do that. You'll definitely want Wiby. Please try

https://wiby.me

does that work for you?

I love wiby for it allows for real web-surfing. Or at least enough of it to get
lost in. At least it makes the world bigger - as opposed to the suffocation I keep feeling in the FAANG matrix. There's also a setting that allows to filter for http compatible sites if you're using really old computers.
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On 2024-07-22 10:48:53 +0000, Sebastian P. said:

In article <v6geme$r4q7$1@dont-email.me>, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>
wrote:

On 2024-07-08 04:05:37 +0000, Sebastian P. said:

In article <v69f2b$3d9h3$1@dont-email.me>, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid>
wrote:

Seems wilby.org is redirecting to Bing when I try it on my Mojave
system, what the hell is that about.

That's odd, it shouldn't do that.

It isn't now but it was on the 20th.

You'll definitely want Wiby. Please try

https://wiby.me

does that work for you?

Wilby.me looks fine in Mojave but in Tiger it's some kind of "WordPress
Sample Site," lol.

Wilby.org in Tiger is just a spinning circle that never connects.

I think those boys have some work to do if they want be backward compatible.

I love wiby for it allows for real web-surfing. Or at least enough of it to get
lost in. At least it makes the world bigger - as opposed to the suffocation I keep feeling in the FAANG matrix.

There's also a setting that allows to filter for http compatible sites
if you're
using really old computers.

First I'd have to be able to get there with Tiger/TenFourFox.

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In article <v7m51e$oemm$1@dont-email.me>,
super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

First I'd have to be able to get there with Tiger/TenFourFox.

Recently, I was pointed towards this page, "A look at search engines
with their own indexes": https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

And from there to a search engine called "Mojeek",
https://www.mojeek.com/

I'm now using Mojeek in Tiger/TenFourFox, it might be suitable for you.
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In article <mikedee-691FD0.12442629072024@news.eternal-september.org>,
Mike Dee <mikedee@emteedee.net> wrote:

In article <v7m51e$oemm$1@dont-email.me>,
super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

First I'd have to be able to get there with Tiger/TenFourFox.

Recently, I was pointed towards this page, "A look at search engines
with their own indexes": https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

And from there to a search engine called "Mojeek",
https://www.mojeek.com/

I'm now using Mojeek in Tiger/TenFourFox, it might be suitable for you.

That one seems to work well in TFF and they emphasize no tracking.
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