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DRAFT POST: this post is in progress/under review on envs.net and will be posted on my main site, seirdy.one when its ready. Dont share it yet.
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This is a cursory review of all the indexing search engines I have been able to find.
The three dominant English search engines with their own indexes¹ are Google, Bing, and Yandex (GBY). Many alternatives to GBY exist, but almost none of them have their own results; instead, they just source their results from GBY.
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* Occasionally powers DuckDuckGos link results instead of Bing.
4. Mojeek: Claims to be privacy-oriented. Quality isnt at Google/Bing/Yandexs level, but its not bad either. If I had to use Mojeek as my default general search engine, Id live.
5. Petal search: gopetal.com and petalsearch.com. A very new engine developed by Huawei. Surprisingly good results; it passed all the listed tests. Requires an account to submit sites. I discovered this via my access logs.
=> https://www.gopetal.com/ gopetal.com

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title: A look at search engines with their own indexes
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DRAFT POST: this post is in progress/under review on envs.net and will be posted on my main site, [seirdy.one](https://seirdy.one/) when it's ready. Don't share it yet.
This is a cursory review of all the indexing search engines I have been able to find.
The three dominant English search engines with their own indexes[^1] are Google, Bing, and Yandex (<abbr title="Google, Bing, Yandex">GBY</abbr>). Many alternatives to GBY exist, but almost none of them have their own results; instead, they just source their results from GBY.