Gigablast, an independent/alternative search engine

Unlike other non-Google search engines, they don't use Bing API.

There's an article in ABC (Australian media) talking about it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-14/google-news-media-bargaining-code-build-search-engine/13143582 . They mention another independent search engine called Mojeek.

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