Has anyone heard of the German ‘MetaGer’?
Choice had an article about Google and alternate search eingines in 2017 https://www.choice.com.au/electronics-and-technology/internet/using-online-services/articles/better-web-searching#Alternative%20search%20engines but not very relevant today I s’pose.
Maybe time for a new research on this topic?
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You mean this one?
Yes it comes under the GDPR and the source code is public and transparent (https://metager3.de/en/transparency). If you pay for membership of suma-ev, link is to the membership form (pdf), you can search without Ads, minimum charge for individuals (as Members) a month is Euro 5.00 but you can opt to pay more… Suma-ev is the association that is the owner of MetaGer. There is no charge for searching as a non member but you will get ads.
To explain the goals of suma-ev you can read it in English courtesy of Google Translate (you can use other site translators but here Google does a great job).
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://suma-ev.de/mitglieder/
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