review search engines

some of the search engines we include have had changes:

  • the whoogle instance we picked now switched to spanish as default language, there are other instances but I don't know which one we should pick.
  • the searx instance is now using searxng (a fork of searx). here's a comparison, it shouldn't be a big deal and it doesn't deviate from the vanilla confing according to searx.space.

I don't know how we feel about the rest that we use, but if you have suggestions about removing or adding something this is a good moment :-)

todo:

  • analyze swisscows
  • analyze startpage
  • analyze mojeek
  • analyze brave
  • analyze qwant
  • analyze ddg
  • analyze ddg lite
  • analyze wikipedia
  • analyze whoogle and pick new instance
  • analyze searx and searxng
  • analyze metager
  • decide what to add
  • decide what to remove

just to be very clear all the browsers in this list are actually pretty private.

two new tasks:

  • update searxng icon
  • evaluate ecosia
Edited by fxbrit