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2025-03-23
of starts and quants

bearded iris, San José, California

2017-04-12 – Huawei Nexus 6P
bearded iris, San José, California

🎵 (youtube) Arttu Wiskari «Suomen Muotoisen Pilven Alla»

recently switched from Qwant to Startpage for my default search engine – needless to say, I haven’t gotten decent results out of Google for yonks (especially since they now completely ignore the +, -, and "" modifiers they themselves introduced) – when I decided to leave them, I stumbled around the usual suspects (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Qwant, SearX) and eventually settled on Startpage – after allegations of Startpage getting bought out by adtech company System1, I switched over to Qwant – but now Qwant has changed bot mitigation providers and gives me nothing but «Access blocked» while the fears over Startpage haven’t surfaced yet, I’m back to Startpage … for now …

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