Swisscows Reviews

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Swisscows mentions (36)

• As we all are highly dependent on the information searched for, most engines filter for best fit to interact and sell but not the information we really are looking for, so what is the best search engine who really tries to only filter out the information we are looking for?

  For searching things up when you're in PG rated surroundings and don't want heart attack: https://swisscows.com/en. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What is going on with search engines these days?

  DuckDuckGo & Co. - DDG, Swisscows and Ecosia all use Bing index. For people that only care about privacy, this is a non-issue. But I don't like the idea that the entirety of web currently depends on just two companies. So I personally don't use them. Same logic extends to Startpage, which is owned by an ad company & uses Google's results. As they rely on the Big 2, they're closer to frontends/MetaSearch engines in... Source: about 2 years ago

• WTF Delaware

  I recommend you use swisscows.com to search instead, its not censored in the same way that duckduckgo.com and google.com is censored with different results appearing. Source: over 2 years ago

• I thought Brave didn't collect data? Am I missing something.

  I use brave, google (for technical subjects when I can't find answer with brave), and for anything that has a remote chance to be censored I use engines with their own crawlers : fireball.de, gigablast.com, yandex.com and other browsers to be sure but I don't think they have their own crawler : lycos.com, swisscows.com, mojeek.com, metager.de. We would need a locally served meta search engine that search on all... Source: over 2 years ago

• Search engines

  Swisscows Private search engine based in Switzerland Https://swisscows.com. Source: almost 3 years ago

MetaCrawler mentions (2)

• Study Says Almost 30% of People Are Redoing or Refining Their Google Searches/On Reddit, people have also complained about crummy Google Search results

  I'm not sure how much the current metacrawler.com has in common with the older versions, but it does seem to work quite well. Source: over 2 years ago

• The internet is becoming less and less useful

  Nice. Earlier this week after trying a fairly simple search query that would have been a cinch to find actual web pages that talked about my topic, Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, all failed big time. I mean, the majority of the first twenty results didn't even contain my first search term. I went looking for "old school" search engines that might still adhere to boolean search rules, and most of the classics either no... Source: over 2 years ago