Add Privacy Guides to Your Personalized Search Engine Results

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Don’t miss out on any updates from Privacy Guides when you’re searching the web.

In many search engines, you can add our resources as “preferred results” if you want our articles to rise above the rest of the content out there these days.

Brave Search

You can make sure you don’t miss any quality resources with the Privacy & Security Brave Goggle published by Privacy Guides.

:right_arrow: Try the ‘Privacy & Security’ Goggle on Brave Search

This Goggle prioritizes articles and news from Privacy Guides, organizations that promote privacy, and products that respect privacy (i.e. everything we recommend here!). It de-prioritizes privacy invasive services and low-quality information sources.

The source code for this Goggle is hosted on our GitHub, where you can open an issue to add more resources or down-rank any misinformation you come across.

Google Preferred News Sources

You can add Privacy Guides as a preferred news source in Google if this is your search engine of choice.

Add Privacy Guides as a Preferred Source

Add Privacy Guides as a Preferred Source. Additionally, you can add the Privacy Guides forum as a preferred source as well.

Kagi Personalized Results

You can prioritize results from Privacy Guides in Kagi by opening your :right_arrow: personalized results settings and adding the domains…

  • privacyguides.org
  • discuss.privacyguides.net

…set to the Raise or Pin setting. More info about Kagi’s Personalized Results.

Last edited by @jonah 2025-11-16T05:07:13Z

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Fantastic! Just added to my Kagi. Thanks for sharing! I’m still discovering Kagi’s feature set so will likely add more.

You should also encourage others to add Techlore and your channels too.

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So for Google this requires to enable personalization generally which is probably not wise.

I mean fun that this can be done but I don’t personally like the idea of people going more and more in a bubble by personalized content.

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I’d rather have people add Privacy Guides and Techlore than have them discover Rob Braxman.

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Who is them? Because this is something you enable yourself so you kinda already have to know anyway.

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Let me rephrase.

I mean, if you know PG and the likes, I would rather have people personalize this platform before they discover Braxman and fall for his mis/dis-information on tech and privacy.

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I probably wouldn’t use Google at all, but I just wanted to note down all the search engines I could find that have this functionality for reference lol

I like Brave’s functionality the most here because I think it’s neat we could make a list to help the things this community recommends show up if people use it to search for new services. And we can keep it on GitHub so if people like it they can help us improve the list, but we’ll see if that actually happens.

Kagi’s is probably my least favorite implementation of the 3 above. I wonder if they’d ever consider expanding the functionality of their “Lenses” using the same format as Brave.

Similarly on Twitter I just made a list of all the products/orgs we recommend on the site and shared it for other people on Twitter to follow all at once, and people there liked it. I wish Mastodon had list sharing functionality too but I don’t believe it does.

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There’s no “starter pack” àla Bluesky on Mastodon?

Regarding the main topic, I never knew that such a thing existed.
It’s…very powerful and super badass I have to admit. Would also be very nice to have as a quick shortcut for a browser search like pr <android>
but it can also get quite political regarding who we push up or down and also that would lead into some more constrained field of view.

I mean, people can always opt out from it you’d say and I agree. :+1:t2:

I appreciate the idea of having it on Github for sure. :white_check_mark:
I wonder if it could be daily pulled from the repo to not have obsolete stuff in case of a new website or one going super badly due to some recent events.
If not, I imagine it would be hard for consumers of this curated list to be aware that there is an update to the list they need to pull (manually) from. :sweat_smile:

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Brave will pull updates from GitHub automatically :slight_smile:

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Great, just a recommendation , for Googles I would give a bigger boost to the privacyguides.org website vs the forum. For example, the VPN recommendations don’t show up.

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Also, please consider boosting NYTimes Wirecutter. They are one of the only outlets which only recommends Mullvad, ProtonVPN (and TunnelBear) instead of the two others almost every outlet praise.

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It should already be like that.

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Yeah, my point was that the relative difference between the forum and the website should be bigger.

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Unfortunately I am not sure if boosting has an impact on things that Brave Search does not rank us for at all, and I’m not sure if privacyguides.org actually shows up anywhere if you search “Best VPN”

Now… I would argue they probably should, and I’m not sure why they don’t, but this probably speaks to a need for better SEO optimization on our end as well sadly. I’m happy at least some of our resources are correctly showing up above spam blogs even if it is not the page we’d intend.

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Yeah you are probably right

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Config for SearXNG:

# settings.yml
hostnames:
  high_priority:
    - '(.*\.)?privacyguides\.(net|org)$'
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