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I got so disappointed with ddg when I discovered it's just a wrapper around Bing. With privacy-related AdBlock filters I get the best of both worlds, Google and no tracking. The world needs a non-US based alternate crawler but no one is offering it.

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Apart from Yandex and Baidu, there is also the young French search engine Qwant [1].

1: https://www.qwant.com/

What Adblock filter prevents Google from knowing what searches you make?

None that I've found, but ixquick.com can perform an anonymous Google search for you. Now, whether you trust them with your search history (they claim they don't record anything[1]) is entirely up to you.

[1] https://www.ixquick.com/eng/privacy-policy.html?hmb=1

If you're not loggedin and and blocking their tracking all they'll have is your IP address, which is the same thing ddg gets.

DuckDuckGo doesn't save your IP address, that's part of what they mean when they say they don't track you.

There are non-US crawlers. Of course they have their own governments to direct censorship. But they censor differently, so you get a better chance. Surprisingly, Baidu does index the relevant stuff in this case. For Yandex it is not even surprising (they have aimed to have some English-language presence since long ago).

"The world needs a non-US based alternate crawler but no one is offering it."

How about a US-based alternative that doesn't enforce UK, Pakistani, EU, and various other censorship lists that foreign countries promulgate?

Well once you get into their markets they'll affect your services. I guess google could've limited censorship to relevant countries, but maybe they opted for a more easier way.

How would it be paid for?

Try

ixquick.com or startpage.com

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