@eddie_of_ny MagicEarth is superior from my tests. Better in all regards in terms of navigation: from the UI to the maps, voices, detection of radar, heads up when you speed up too much. Overall I managed to switch to it after so many years of being unable to find a Google Maps alternative. But truth is if you want to find an exact place to go, and then maybe parking and what not, google maps is still far superior. Has a lot of info about a lot of places. But in terms of navigation MagicEarth is superior in my view.
A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.
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2·1 year agohttps://searx.neocities.org/ most search engines get recognized in Firefox. Simply visit the link then right click the url and you should see a menu entry like: Add Searx as your search engine.
@sic_semper_tyrannis Oh nice! I’ll have a deeper look. Thx
@TheDarkBanana87 As far as I know they have been bought by an ad-company en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpag… - but SearX supports Startpage too. Just without the BS. I cannot trust any company honestly. They are incentivized to kinda lie and exaggerate. And search engines ran by companies…are terrible. If their business model is to sell you ads, they will track you one way or another, and if not today, they will do it next year.
Searx does not share users’ IP addresses or search history with the search engines from which it gathers results.
- read more here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx and see the source code here github.com/searxng/searxng
@squid I use it daily. We ran an instance too. It is simply great. As good as Google, DDG, and the like are, since it is using them.
@squid True…Harder now to add a custom search engine unless you visit it and then click the url on top to get a dropdown to add it…but manually adding it is hard.
Speaking of search engines I highly recommend searx.neocities.org/ - it randomly uses the best Searx instances. No ads, no tracking…
@uninvitedguest Unfortunately…