New Search Engine – Freespoke

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I have found a new search engine; and the more I use it, the more I like it.

It’s called Freespoke, and you can find it at https://freespoke.com/.

Freespoke was started by the owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. The reason he started it was because he felt that the other search engines were suppressing results; and he wanted to see all search results, not just what the search engine folks wanted him to see.

An interesting thing about Freespoke is that some results are labeled “Left”, “Middle”, or “Right”. And it appears that Freespoke sincerely tries to show at least some results from each of those categories.

The results screen is exceptionally well designed; it is really easy to quickly sift through the information shown.

Most people using the Internet are adults; and in my opinion, they are capable of deciding for themselves what they want to see and what they want to ignore. (Parents can take steps to monitor / control what their kids see, if they feel that is appropriate.) It is very refreshing to have a search engine that lets me decide for myself what I want to see and what I want to ignore.

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Playing with it a little today and so far the search results have been pretty solid. Thanks!

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MrJimPhelps wrote:

sincerely tries to show at least some results from each of those categories.

Does not that imply someone is deciding things??

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I like to think that they are simply trying to help me rather than decide for me.

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Thanks for the link. Tried it briefly, but I’ll be sticking with DDG. Freespoke results seem just a bit too clickbaity for my personal preference

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I did a quick test and it seems to supply similar responses to DDG and the others with some major failings. The first is that it won’t work without javascript enabled. Other search engines have limited options when you disable javascript but work. The second is that you need to have cookies enabled for the site to work. So it’s not a privacy orientated search engine.

There also doesn’t seem to be a way to vary your searches by level of “safe search” moderation. Sometimes you’ll need to make safe search strict and sometimes it’s better to turn it off.

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How dare we expect to be able to select our own degree of safety!

Way too controlling for my liking. Goodbye and good riddance Feorepeske.

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I guess it comes down to a decision between privacy (Startpage, Duck Duck Go) and non-suppressed search results (Freespoke).

I’m leaning toward Freespoke at this time.

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MrJimPhelps wrote:

I guess it comes down to a decision between privacy (Startpage, Duck Duck Go) and non-suppressed search results (Freespoke).

Non-suppressed or promoted differently?

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I do not rely on a single search engine.  Here’s my list by order of most frequent use:

Brave search (Brave Browser is my main browser.  Firefox 2nd.  TOR 3rd)

Duck duck go

Gibiru –  They claim “Uncensored Private Search”

Mojeek – They claim “Independent search”, not a mirror of Bing and Google.

Google – When I want to see what 80% of  search engine users are seeing.

Bing – I like the landscape images of the home page.  You can easily download them in for your screen resolution.

 

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These are literally all search engines. Every one of them

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I automatically distrust any program that can’t be uninstalled. I have removed Freespoke from my Firefox browser at least a half dozen times, but whenever I shut down the browser, upon restarting it Freespoke reappears. Spent an hour searching how to uninstall it so it doesn’t come back but have found no answer. If anyone here who has tried Freespoke, didn’t like it, and permanently removed it, could please tell me how you did that, I would be grateful as the ordinary way of removing search engines from Firefox does not stop Freespoke from reappearing every time I start the browser.

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Never used it myself but, according to the Freespoke website, it’s a browser extension not just a search engine (which could explain why it keeps appearing when you remove just the search engine.)

As a test I added Freespoke to Chrome and it changed my default search engine to Freespoke.

Just like your Firefox, if I removed just the Freespoke “search engine“, the default search engine reverted back to Freespoke when I restarted Chrome.

I then removed just the Freespoke “extension” and the default search engine still reverted back to Freespoke when I restarted Chrome.

In order to complete remove it, I had to remove both the extension and the search engine.

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How do I uninstall a search engine?

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If it is an extension you do it from within the browser.

What is the search engine?

cheers, Paul

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