Re: Search engine suggestions

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.