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Safari vs Metager vs Bing

 vs Searx vs DuckDuckGo vs Google Search vs Mojeek vs Wiby vs Qwant vs StartPage vs Million Short vs Yacy vs dropicon vs Find! vs Search For Trees vs you.com vs Brave Search vs Swisscows vs Siik vs Ecosia vs Brave vs Google vs Gomu vs AIOIS vs CoRepo vs yoursearch.ai vs Max Impact Search vs Phoenix browser

Specs

Platforms

macOS, iOS, iPadOS

License

Proprietary

Based On

N/A

Browser Engine

WebKit

Price

Free

Default Search Engine

Google

Off line installer available

Built-In

Search Engine Keywords

No

Custom install path

Yes

Bookmark Keywords

No

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

Search engine

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

Windows, Linux, MAC, iOS, Android

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

Desktop, Mobile

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

Search

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

All

License

Proprietary

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

Search engine

Multi Language Support

Not yet

Dark Theme

Yes

Dark Mode

Yes

Tracking

No

Privacy Respecting

Yes

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

MPL-2.0

Based On

Chromium core

Browser Engine

Blink

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Price

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Category

-

Multi Language Support

-

Dark Theme

-

Dark Mode

-

Tracking

-

Privacy Respecting

-

Pros + Cons

Pro
 Extremely fast

Comment

Con
 Proprietary

While Safari er is currently available gratis (without monetary charge) on Mac OS X, it is currently not libre (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications) and is therefore neither free nor open-source software.
Comment

Con
 Does NOT block Ads

Doesn't block ads, unlike browsers like Brave and Vivaldi.
Comment

Pro
 Works elegantly in OSX

The rendering of the pages and the browser compatibility with OSX works smoothly, when compared to other browsers. Also you get very high battery life with Safari, when compared to Chrome.
Comment

Con
 Even on OSX not the best experience

Video controls are bad esp. on youtube. Only few browser extensions.
Comment

Con
 Outdated rendering engine

All other browsers and toolkits (Qt/GTK) have shifted to Googles Blink-fork of KHTML/Webkit so Apple is currently the only main contributor left.
Comment

Con
 Terrible support for open source formats like .VP9 or .ogg

Apple does not support open source formats. Instead, they use H.264 and H.265.
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Con
 Poor support for new web technologies

Safari usually takes its time when it comes to adopting new and useful web technologies meaning that the user gets an inferior experience compared to other modern browsers.
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Con
 OSX only

Apple dropped Windows support after Safari 5.
Comment

Con
 Uses only Bing and Ecosia results

The latter of which could be their own crawler.
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Pro
 Open source

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Pro
 Allows to visit search results anonymously

Comment

Pro
 Run by a non profit organisation dedicated to privacy and data protection

Comment

Pro
 Tor network service

Gives access within Tor.
Comment

Pro
 Supports easy search in open-street-map

Locations can be shown on open-street-map.
Comment

Pro
 Really fast

It displays only what you need and no more.
Comment

Con
 Uses only Bing and Scopia results

the latter of which could be their own crawler
Comment

Pro
 Open Source

Comment

Con
 Microsoft rewards are region locked

Comment

Con
 Very very slow

Bing has very slow load times compared to other engines.
Comment

Con
 Censors search results

Comment

Con
 USA Based

USA based = no privacy. Don't trade ease of use over privacy!
Comment

Pro
 Intelligent Search

Bing will find you answers to questions from multiple sources, all in one widget at the top of the search results.
Comment

Con
 Microsoft product

Invades privacy.
Comment

Con
 No advanced search page

Comment

Pro
 Advanced image search

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Pro
 Awesome image search results

It gives you the most visually appealing results without you needing to be precise, just search 'illustration' and compare the results.
Comment

Pro
 Visual Search

Give Bing an image, and Bing will find where it came from and similar images and their sources.
Comment

Pro
 Accurate and relevant results

Bing search results are often times more accurate and almost always more relevant than Google searches.
Comment

Con
 Can look for animated gifs

Comment

Con
 Owned by Microsoft

Guaranteed censorship, guaranteed bias, and guaranteed absolutely no privacy.
Comment

Pro
 Has image chops, and shows more video

Comment

Pro
 Incentivizes use by offering rewards

You earn 10 Microsoft Rewards points per search, up to 150 or 300 points per day, depending on your rewards level. These points can be redeemed for gift cards, sweepstakes, and more.
Comment

Con
 Microsoft product

Invades privacy
Comment

Con
 Microsoft product

Invades privacy
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Con
 Microsoft product

Invades privacy
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Con
 Sometimes shows unwanted results

It searches for a lot of stuff, even unwanted ones like porn; one keyword matched.
Comment

Con
 Backed by github.com

Github is known for the libre, and hosting tech pros, and other tech users, which was made to "make a better search engine than DuckDuckGo.
Comment

Con
 A little slow sometimes

Comment

Con
 Github users can track you

Comment

Con
 Suffers from Google captcha

Some instances can’t fetch results from Google.
Comment

Con
 No detection of language

You need to specify the language you want to search in.
Comment

Pro
 Multiple public instances

Pick one you like.
Comment

Con
 Not very mobile friendly

Needs WSL2 for Windows, and works natively on macOS and Linux, but no support for Android or iOS.
Comment

Pro
 Opensource and self-hostable

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Pro
 Very fast

Since it is a Python program with a web interface, it's very very fast even on a poor internet connections.
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Pro
 Most private search engine

Since it can be hosted on your own server/computer, it's very private, nothing leaves your computer. There aren't cookies or ads too.
Comment

Con
 Linux only

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Con
 No preference syncing

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Pro
 Meta engine

Indexes loads and it's all configurable.
Comment

Pro
 Can use a proxy

Using a proxy called Morty hides the IP address of the user.
Comment

Pro
 Lightweight, suitable for low-end machines

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Pro
 Supports instant answers

Uses Google and Bing, and hence has the 'quick answers' feature of both the search engines.
Comment

Pro
 Can add many search engines

Has a vast choice of search engines.
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Pro
 Extremely customizable

Since you have access to all the .yaml files, you can easily modify it to your needs.
Comment

Con
 Linux only

Comment

Pro
 Privacy is important

DuckDuckGo does not keep your search results, nor does it collect or share any personal information. Their privacy page has a great rundown on why privacy is important. The most important repercussion of this is that DDG doesn't use the data collected to tailor results, avoiding exposure to the "Filter Bubble".
Comment

Con
 Horrible search results

They store no information about you (theoretically a pro) but this results in absolutely awful search results, and having to modify your search terms 4-5 times to get what you are looking for.
Comment

Con
 No date information in search results

In search results, there are no dates when the pages were published, which doesn't allow you to immediately know if the page is outdated.
Comment

Con
 Based in the US

So they have to follow the US laws like the Patriot Act, and even if they don't follow the law other companies like the data centers will do!
Comment

Pro
 Ads are non-obstructive and don't track you

The ads are clearly labelled as ads and are non-obstructive. The ads are based on the searched keywords and there's no tracking involved on their visibility. You just need to remember that the site the ad links to might track you.
Comment

Con
 Owner has a history of privacy abuse

Weinberg was the CEO of the spyware social network "Names Database".
Comment

Con
 Still not better than Google, technically

Results are quite often not as good. They just lack resources to do it, for now.
Comment

Con
 DuckDuckGo and Yahoo partnership

See here and here.
Comment

Pro
 Many customization options for appearance

DDG allows customizing almost any aspect of the search engine's appearance including fonts, page width, alignment, header behavior, site icons, etc and has a selection of premade themes available as well.
Comment

Con
 Search results are often unrelated and limited

Common conversions do not work, i.e. searching for 15F to C does not give you the conversion but just a bunch of conversion websites. Very frustrating. It's a simple thing but makes a huge difference to the browsing/searching experience. Also location based only works for the country you're in. Searching for, say, McDonalds only gives country results for McDonalds and no local results such as where a local restaurant may be. Not very helpful.
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Con
 Shows too few images

When searching for images only, it shows too few of them and only a handful are related to the search terms.
Comment

Con
 Doesn't do personalized searches

Since they don't track you the results are not tailored to your interests.
Comment

Pro
 Has a wide spectrum of instant answers

For select queries DDG pops up a box that supplies the exact answer. For example, searching "stopwatch" will pop up a stopwatch, asking for "words like..." will show a list of related words, typing "password" will generate a password, etc.
Comment

Con
 Slower than top search engines

It's slower than Google search.
Comment

Pro
 Can disable advertisements

The search engine allows freely disabling ads.
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Con
 DuckDuckGo has many 'Owners'

DuckDuckGo is owned by Gabriel Weinberg who is is the founder, current CEO and controlling shareholder. Investors/shareholders include Union Square Ventures and several others. DuckDuckGo generates its income from advertising (Bing Ads) and collects affiliate revenue (Amazon, eBay).
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Pro
 Allows searching from specific sites using bangs

Bangs are commands that allow searching via a different website's local search engine, using keywords or abbreviations with an exclamation mark (!). For example searching "world war ii !wiki" will automatically redirect to Wikipedia.org and show results for the query "world war ii" there, instead of DuckDuckGo, using Wikipedia's search engine. The more common sites have shortened alternatives for these commands. Such as !g for Google, !i for images and !yt Youtube. The whole list of bangs can be found by typing "!bang" in DuckDuckGo.
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Con
 DuckDuckGo has no 3rd party certifications

Comment

Pro
 Has a .onion site

Accessible with the TOR network.
Comment

Pro
 Can function without JavaScript

Of course, it's nicer when enabled, but it's not required. Some browsers are too limited (mobile, terminal) or turn it off for security reasons (tor, etc.), and DDG still works.
Comment

Con
 Does not allow to limit the search result to the past year

Only past month supported.
Comment

Con
 No advanced search page

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Con
 Time limit only a month

You can only limit the date of the search result up to a month old. Many need a year or a more flexible solution.
Comment

Pro
 No filter bubble

DuckDuckGo does not filter your searches with the data that they have. You get to see everything the Internet has to offer in a safe, private way.
Comment

Con
 DuckDuckGo Maps feature is flawed

The maps search is quite clearly less good compared to Google Maps.
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Con
 Focus on English

The search engine is too focused on English and US results. Search results are not as satisfying as with alternatives.
Comment

Con
 Saving settings in Duckduckgo's Cloud still needs improvement

Cloud save and the ability to pull up your settings on any device is a nice idea but the implementation needs work.
Comment

Pro
 Infinite scroll of search results

DuckDuckGo results page is an infinite scrolling page, so you don't need to be clicking through pages. But if you prefer clicking through pages, you can turn scrolling off in the settings.
Comment

Pro
 Pulls information from multiple search engines

DDG searches through not only its own database but pulls search results from multiple other search engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc for a total of 30+ search engines as well.
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Con
 Referrers

A referrer is an HTTP header field that identifies the address of the webpage (i.e. the URI or IRI) that linked to the resource being requested. By checking the referrer, the new webpage can see where the request originated. Basically it tells a website where you came from. DDG does give this out.
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Con
 Bangs do not protect user privacy and can be misleading

Redirecting to a third-party website and thus exposing to the risk of tracking and data collection. DuckDuckGo bangs, being submitted by users, do not follow a specific naming scheme.
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Con
 Form over function (overall search experience is poor)

It's nice to adjust the settings and all but after a couple of days you will want to go back to a more functional search engine. Sure DDG looks shiny and !bangs are great but many wouldn't consider it as a viable alternative. Better results for search queries is more important than fancy looking CSS.
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Pro
 Good for Linux users

DuckDuckGo has an API with some websites. With the help of this API, if you search for a fix of a problem in Linux, you can easily find an answer to the problem. For example, if you search for "How to update linux", you will get a message like this: How to install updates via command line Try this: sudo apt-get update # Fetches the list of available updates sudo apt-get upgrade # Strictly upgrades the current packages sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # Installs updates (new ones) --SirCharlo
Comment

Pro
 Keyboard shortcuts

DuckDuckGo has many useful keyboard shortcuts to navigate the search results.
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Pro
 Sometimes results are better than Google

Sometimes the search results are better. Most of the times, they're at least as good as.
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Pro
 Sleek and beautiful

Many themes to choose from and customize.
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Pro
 Lets you watch YouTube videos from the site

Duckduckgo lets you watch videos right from their site, so you can have more privacy than watching on youtube.com.
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Pro
 Image search has direct link to image

In the image search finding the image itself is easier to find than on Google, which just includes the page.
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Pro
 Lets you go to other sites

You can go to the Wikipedia page for pigs by doing !w pig.
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Pro
 Has many fun features

For example, if you search "Color Picker" , you see a color picker.
Comment

Con
 Cloud saving still needs work

Cloud save and the ability to pull up your settings on any device is a nice idea but the implementation needs work.
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Con
 Needs a clearer vision of the future

What's duck's goal or quest?
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Con
 Downranks "misinformation" results

Company announced that they are downranking misinformation results about the war by Russia media, after Russian's invasion of Ukraine.
Comment

Con
 Irrelevant search results

They store no information about you (theoretically a pro) but this results in absolutely awful search results, and having to modify your search terms 4-5 times to get what you are looking for.
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Con
 Violated their privacy policy in the past

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Con
 They made a spyware network

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Con
 Activism censorship

They started to block results based on activism.
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Con
 No longer trustworthy or impartial

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Con
 Owner would compromise his service/customer privacy

In a question to Weinberg, “if you were served an NSL or were commanded to compromise your service/customer privacy in any way, would you and could you just pull the plug like Lavabit did or would you run into opposition from shareholders/investors that would prevent you from doing so?” Gabriel Weinberg said: “No one is preventing me from doing that.”
Comment

Con
 Not good for precise research

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Con
 Search accesses your personal data

Quickly finding the answer to a question is only possible because of the data collected and used to personalize the results. Unfortunately, to get this we must submit ourselves to endless personal online data collection and with this data anything is possible
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Con
 Bing = DuckDuckGo

It uses Bing for the query.
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Con
 Hosted on Amazon servers (EC2)

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Con
 Downranks misinformation results

Company announced that they are downranking misinformation results about the war by Russia media, after Russian's invasion of Ukraine.
Comment

Pro
 Ads can be disabled

Advertisements are enabled by default but may be easily turned off in the settings panel.
Comment

Con
 Based in US, so they cannot guarantee there is no backdoor

Comment

Pro
  Tradutor Im

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Pro
 A translator. English// Portuguese

Os e-mails enviados para mim entram na caixa postal do Google. Não sei se posso abrir e lê-los com privacidade.
Comment

Con
 Still not better than Google

Results are quite often not as good. They just lack resources to do it, for now.
Comment

Con
 Search using language other than English is not so great

Korean would never use it.
Comment

Pro
 Very protective of user privacy

DuckDuckGo does not collect or share any personal information. Their privacy page has a great rundown on why privacy is important. The most important repercussion of this is that DDG doesn't use the data collected to tailor results, avoiding exposure to the "Filter Bubble".
Comment

Con
 Potentially invasive of your privacy

Google records your searches. Use incognito mode.
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Con
 Censors search results

Search "Was 9/11 an inside job" and compare the results to Bing's.
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Pro
 Easy to use

Google makes it easy to quickly get your search results.
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Pro
 Most relevant results

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Con
 Google is becoming Big Brother

Google search, chrome, Gmail, analytics, streetview, android, YouTube.
Comment

Pro
 Fast

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Pro
 Still many times comes up with the best results

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 Google promotes AMP websites

Google favours web pages that use AMP web technology, a technology that claims to lighten the load of web pages, but in reality in many cases slows down and is difficult to implement. And the worst thing is that it makes Google host and display the web page in AMP format from its servers.
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 Most widely used

google.com is the most widely used search engine.
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 Best UI

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 Many features

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 SEO Friendly

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 Can customize privacy

Has a site called privacy.google.com that you can use to make it more private
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 Wikipedia at the top

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 Filters by who paid Google more

Ads always shown above organic results.
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 Wikipedia at the top

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 Wikipedia at the top

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 Wikipedia at the top

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 Green

Hosted in the UK's greenest datacenter.
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 Own crawl

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 Slow

It is slow. It loads like 5 images in 5 seconds whereas Searx and DuckDuckGo load almost everything in 5 seconds (10MB/s internet).
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 Requiers JavaScript

Without enabled JavaScript you can't even type your search request.
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Con
 Does not allow to limit search result to last year

Max. limit is past month.
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 Based in Europe

Stricter data privacy protections as compared to the US.
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 Respects privacy

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 Offers full (links, news, etc.) and light interface

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 Includes searching for: Images, News, Videos, Shopping, Social

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 Modern and intuitive design

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 Cookie-free

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 Relevant results

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 Includes a time filter (past 24H, past week, past month)

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 Fast

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 They signed a censorship agreement in 2019

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 Slightly old-fashionned

Less intuitive than Google.
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Con
 Owned by advertising company

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Con
 SP's Instant answers are less accurate than DDG's

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Con
 When you search in some videos for kids, there are too many video results from smile and learn Youtube channel

All google like search engines have this feature.
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 Anonymized web search results from Google

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 StartPage does not collect or share any personal information

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 Owned by advertising company (System1)

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 Allows to limit the search result to the last year (instead of only month)

This does not sound like much but strangely some other search engines only allow to limit the search result to a few month maximum. So, until this is a common feature, a limit of a year is a big pro.
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 Uses only Google search results

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 Based in Netherlands (Europe)

StartPage is based in The Netherlands, where privacy is protected by law, so it is not subject to the same mandates and laws which is one (BIG) less thing to worry about. They own and operate their own servers in colocated facilities both in the U.S. and internationally.
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 Recommended for its no-logging privacy

Your IP address, search query, what site you came from and what site you click on in the results, none of this is logged. That is, by the search engine operators themselves. Even Edward Snowden recommended StartPage for its no-logging privacy.
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 Certification

StartPage has been audited by a 3rd party; EuroPriSe. They look at the use of cookies (all kinds), logging, web hosting and content delivery networks, use of social plugins and much more. This certification is renewed every two years. Having a trusted and respected 3rd party verify your claims is a big plus. https://www.european-privacy-seal.eu/EPS-en/Ixquick-startpage
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 Privacy focused

Unlike Google, Startpage does not record user IP addresses and strips away any uniquely identifying user information before sending the search request to Google. For each search result, Startpage also provides users with the option of viewing them via Ixquick's proxy services known as Ixquick Proxy.
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 Referrers

A referrer is an HTTP header field that identifies the address of the webpage (i.e. the URI or IRI) that linked to the resource being requested. By checking the referrer, the new webpage can see where the request originated.” Basically it tells a website where you came from. Startpage does not give this out.
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 Pulls results from two search engines

Startpage is a hybrid search engine combining results from Ixquick and Google.
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 No Pariot Act or Freedom Act

Even the servers in the US does not need to follow the patriot or freedom act.
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 Offers a free proxy with every search results

The optional proxy allows you to visit linked sites anonymously too. While in the protection of the StartPage proxy, the third-party sites and its advertisers cannot "see" you. Plus, the site cannot download malware onto your computer.
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 Proxy

Built-in IP spoofing option.
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 Filter by time like Google

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 Independent & Private

StartPage is owned by Surfboard Holding B.V., a privately held, independent Dutch company, run by Robert Beens, whose only activities are operating StartPage, Ixquick and StartMail. No 3rd party investors or venture capital behind it as far as I could find. StartPage (and Ixquick) generates income solely from advertising (Google Ads).
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 Uses only Google Results

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 Difficult to censor

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 Decentralized

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 Uses own index

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 Unique concept

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 Simple to use

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 Very limited results

While it has a unique concept, you don't really have that much control as to what you want to search.
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 Search results not as well defined or relevant as Google

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 Extremely productive

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 Not Google

Google monopolistic position made the search engine into same abomination that killed Yahoo.
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 Anonymous data collected (Opt in only)

Brave Search collects some anonymous data (can be opted out) such as the number of searches made per day, and the browser version and OS version used during query. But Brave Search does NOT record or collect the Search Query itself, not even anonymously, making Brave Search more privacy-respecting than Duckduckgo. Find out more here.
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 Personal data is being sold to finance their own business

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 Relevant results (better than Duckduckgo)

Search results in Brave are much more relevant than Duckduckgo. Impressive search engine!
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 Made in United States (Member of the Five Eyes)

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 English only for now (in Beta)

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 Has its own indexing engine

Independent search. Does not depend on other search engines for results, unlike Duckduckgo, which depends on Bing.
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 Does not track geo-location

Doesn't use localization API or Fingerprinting for geo-location. Is not even interested to localize by ISP IPs.
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 Great privacy policy

Everything is detailed here.
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 Multiple region support

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 Not clear how to navigate settings

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 Relevant Results (better than Duckduckgo)

Search results in Brave are much more relevant than Duckduckgo.
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 Relevant results (better than Duckduckgo)

Search results in Brave are much more relevant than Duckduckgo. Impressive search engine!
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Con
 Anonymous data collected (Opt in only)

Brave Search collects some anonymous data (can be opted out) such as the number of searches made per day, and the browser version and OS version used during query. But Brave Search does NOT record or collect the Search Query itself, not even anonymously, making Brave Search more privacy-respecting than Duckduckgo. Find out more here
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 Killme

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 Based in Switzerland

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 They have a VPN and privacy-focused email service coming out soon

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 Privacy-focused

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 Gives great and relevant results

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 There are no Privacy Policy and Terms of Service links

They don't provide any links about this.
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 Instant answers are broken

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 Eye-catching

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 Responsive design

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 Entities search

It shows up entities and descriptions from Wikipedia.
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 It has news

It has a very cool news section.
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 It has its own index

It's not a metasearch engine.
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 Partnership with Microsoft/Bing

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 Slow

Slower than most popular search engines like Searx, Duckduckgo, or Google.
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 Simple to use

If you can see this review, you can use Ecosia.
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 A noble cause

Plants trees with 80% of its total revenue.
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 Privacy friendly

Respects user privacy.
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 Grow trees

Any profit the search engine gets (they earn from ads only) is used in growing trees. The company is non-profit.
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 Privacy respecting

Even as a tree focused search engine, Ecosia protects your privacy.
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 Partnership with Microsoft/Bing

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 Useless built-in 'ad blocker'

Its adblocker is useless to be honest. Since the extension uBlock Origin is a great blocker by itself, the Brave ad blocker does not block every ad!
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 Quite intrusive advertisements, especially on Windows

Advertisements keep popping up in the Windows notification center. Must opt in to ad system, but no option to disable sound for ad notifications only.
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 Brave is an Ad company

Brave Software is a for-profit company (though users must opt into Brave ads and Brave doesn't track users.).
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 Power hungry, uses much more battery power than other browsers

Per default Brave enables hardware acceleration which results in a much higher energy (battery) consumption than the most other web browsers.
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 Doesn't remove search engine ads

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 Promotes search engines that track users such as Bing and Google

Google Search is the first search engine on the list.
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 Dumbed down in the latest versions

In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example: There's no menu-bar.
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 Uses much RAM

1 tab, 400+ RAM, also it depends on what website you're on.
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 Poor customer support

Only customer support available in Brave community. Mods usually does not help.
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 The iPhone version has some odd behavior

On reopening Brave, it often returns you to the "search results" page, rather than the webpage you had previously browsed to from the search results page. Might just be a specific configuration.
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 Creator support limited

Most creators don't use it and so will not profit from the crypto system.
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 Sync issues

Unable to sync extensions, no cloud sync (only device sync).
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 Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chrome.
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 No cloud sync like Firefox

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 Same security-holes as Chrome

On the desktop: Brave uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome may also hack Brave. However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker). Those features will stop many hacking attempts.
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 Takes care of privacy and security

Takes privacy seriously by blocking ads and trackers and not tracking people's searches. Things like HTTPS everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best.
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 Supports the latest technologies

Brave regularly adds new functionalities like decentralized domain support and a native crypto wallet long before Chrome considers them. These features to be disabled in settings.
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 Option to pay supported sites based on view time percentage

Set up automatic micro-donations. Brave will automatically divide a monthly donation among the top sites you visit. And/or, you can decide which sites get what percentage of your donation. It’s called pinning.
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 Tor is available right in the browser

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 Built-in adblocking

Other apps make it difficult to block ads without rooting your phone or going through unoptimized add-on stores, but Link Bubble blocks them out of the box, making browsing much less crowded. Contains an optional "Allow Brave Acceptable Ads" so you can support the site you truly enjoy.
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 Built-in proxy

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 Privacy focused

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 Simple ui

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 Total Investments Filter

When search for startups you can filter a min and max amount of investment to find websites that are in the stage you expect.
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 Country filter

Filter your results by the head quarter location of each website
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 No Crap Content Sites

only displays hompages
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 Industry filter

Having a rough industry filter can often remove sites that are too similar in terms of keywords but in terms of industry are rather different
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 favorite search engine to continue search can be choosed yourself

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 is opensource

sourcecode can be viewed by anyone
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 uses allready existing engines

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 helps different sustainable and charity causes

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 needs a disabled popupblocker on its site

no problem cause of opensource
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 Buggy

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