Just came across this while scrolling pixelfed!
A Canadian hosted search engine.
I have been using Ecosia, but will have to try this out.
Just came across this while scrolling pixelfed!
A Canadian hosted search engine.
I have been using Ecosia, but will have to try this out.
It’s worth knowing that SearXNG (Wikipedia) is an open-source metasearch engine that has many available hosts. At the bottom of maapl.net is a link to a list of public instances. maapl.net isn’t actually on the list yet, but there’s one other Canadian host, https://searxng.shreven.org/. For any non-Canadians who catch this, there’s a bunch of other instances you might want to try, e.g. in Europe.
Definitely recommend SearxNG. Been loving using it because I don’t need to worry about bullshit results for malvertisements disguised as actual results.
yep. and for the self-hosters it’s easy to setup a private instance of it. i fairly recently set one up, and it’s been great.
also, mike, who set that up, also runs a smaller Canadian mastodon instance, with about 150
registeredmonthly active users, so if you’re looking for a smaller mastodon instance, that’s an option too.Hi, we actually have 150 monthly active users we have several hundred registered users. We’ve had thousands of registered users at one time but I purge the rolls every so often.
oops, sorry, fixed! thanks!
Thank you for this awesome comment! I will be saving those 2 instances in my bookmarks.
Looks like 3 of the 5 search back ends are throwing errors at the moment, so it’s basically a frontend for Google and Wikipedia for now.