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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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Where are we on Search Engines? (self.boycottus)

submitted 1 week ago by Tenderizer to c/boycottus

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So I've tried out a few search engines but no matter where I look I can't find a great answer.

Qwant was decent for a bit but as I eventually found out they don't use their own index.
SearXNG, same as above.
Mojeek was one of the first I went with but I often can't find what I'm looking for when using it.
Wikipedia gives me YaCy, Exalead, Opensearch, Gigablast, and Elasticsearch but either I can't find the URL's for them or they require I install something on my computer.

What did you all end up picking? And does it even matter if the back-end is American owned, do American companies make money from that (or does that give them inordinate control)?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Gigablast used to be great, but they vanished with no warning a few years ago. It was run by a small team, or maybe one guy, who posted frequently about how difficult it was to make a search engine when so many sites block them now (but don't block Google.) So, I think maybe he just decided it wasn't worth it anymore.