Best Private/Anonymous Search Engine For GrapheneOS?

What do you guys think is the best?

Brave? Duckduckgo? Startpage?

Let's discuss!

Can you use the search engine independently of the browser?

Stewart For me it's Brave too!

[deleted] Startpage has always had the mistrust of the privacy community due to its owner being an ad company. But the privacy policy was good and it seemed OK too until a while ago. I don't remember if they started using trackers or something changed in the privacy policy, but you definitely shouldn't use it at all anymore.

I default to Brave. It searches Reddit which is helpful for some tech-support type of searches. But I feel it's index is smaller, so sometimes I need ddg to get what I need.

DDG uses Bing and it has openly implemented political censorship a while ago, which also sucks. So I try to avoid. It has "in-line" translations (you search "whistle in Italian", for example, and it shows the translation in the results page) , which is helpful.

For searches in local language (and I assume all or most non-English languages), Brave is useless and ddg is OK at best. So I need some Google results which I get through SearX. Instances get rate limited all the time, so you need https://searx.neocities.org/.
I never managed to get it working with Vanadium or Brave, so you need Mull to use it from the address bar.

Hb1hf For some search engines to be able to turn up in chromium based browsers as 'recently used', and consequently be able to set as default browser, u need to temporarly change the search engines method from POST to GET.

Not sure if searxng lets u do this tho.

[deleted] DuckDuckGo? This is not as private as one thinks, times have changed for DuckDuckGo, it's heading in a similar vein that Google took decades ago.

https://leta.mullvad.net/

AloofChocolate do you have any links/sources, or could you elaborate please? I'm interested as I see them recommended a lot, even by Michael Bazzell.

beammer335d how is this search engine? I haven't seen very much of it.

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it is the default with Mullvad browser and is actually quite good, I think on par with Brave search from the few times I've tried it

how do you get brave search to work with vanadium? or should be brave browser be installed and use that instead of vanadium?

m4ri0g
Open vanadium and make a search on brave search.

Then go to settings > search engine

Search.brave.com should now be visible under 'recently visited'

Select it and it should now be your default search engine on vanadium.

[deleted] https://leta.mullvad.net/faq
It's a proxy for Google and Brave search results which also caches results. It's also worth noting that you need to be connected to Mullvad VPN to access Mullvad Leta.

r134a
I don't see any recently visited on the list of search engines.
just have ddg, google yahoo, bing and ecosia

m4ri0g
Did u go to https://search.brave.com, and actually perform a search first?

If so i would try to delete all history/browsing data and perform the sequence again as described above.

If it is still not there under recently visited after performing these steps, try force closing vanadium and watch again under recently visited.