Tentaclii is back at No.1 on Google…

Though is still not indexed on Bing or DuckDuckGo, apart from (bizarrely) just two random PDFs. It’s been that way for years. As it’s no longer possible to submit a blog to Bing, I don’t see any way of changing it.

Tentaclii is present on the first page of results at Yandex. Yandex is a pretty reasonable search-engine and supplies DuckDuckGo. The Duck being a blend of Bing and Yandex, as you can see here…

… but a lot gets censored from Yandex before it gets fed to the Duck. Tentaclii is presumably one of the elements being filtered out, which suggests it’s flagged as ‘undesirable’ in some way. It may be being bounced partly because Bing doesn’t index it?

Tentaclii is the top result on the worthy but eclectic Gigablast, which is the only other one that vaguely matters. Mojeek being worthy as a standalone indie that keeps soldiering on, but now very old and with very poor relevance ranking. Common Crawl still has no third-party keyword search interface, except for an incredibly old crawl. Yippy is a filtered Bing, and while excellent (if rather slow) for techie forum searches like researching a regex formula, it doesn’t seem to be much use for anything else I want.

I don’t know of any engine that dogpiles together the full main Google, with Bing and Yandex, and also has good relevance ranking and de-duplication. According to the above chart (2019) it doesn’t exist. But if anyone knows of one, or a browser addon or dashboard that does the same without captchas, I’d welcome hearing about it.