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From: super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Search engine suggestions
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 05:23:11 -0500
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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.