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I'm using Startpage and it's been mostly fine. The biggest issue is that the "nested" results that come from Google (e.g. a forum and related posts) don't show in Startpage, it will only show the main result.
I really wanted to use something like SearXNG, but I get basically zero results whenever I use an instance, no idea if I'm missing something in how they work.
Brave search but am looking for something else now that image search has been removed.
Presearch. I run a node and get paid for running it. The searches are solid as well.
Gruble.de, eine Searxng Instanz welche von Adminforge betrieben wird
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Sadly, I use Google. Their query syntax is so good and can be so precise in their results. I wish to get any search engine with that quality in their query syntax.
Yeah, I'll often start with duckduckgo and give it a couple tries if I can't find what I want, but then I go back to Googleand typically find it.
DDG. On a related note, it seems like Google doesn't know me at all, 'cause they always give me wiki results in my local language over the english wiki, although I exclusively click the google search result for English Wikipedia further down...
I used to use startpage, but I’ve recently switched to using random SearXNG instances with libredirect. It’s pretty good results wise and means I’m not dependant on just one entity providing my results.
DuckDuckGo is great, I also switched to Brave Search a couple months ago. The results aren't as good, but I like how it's independently indexed.
I use both startpage and duckduckgo, I use different browsers for different uses. For example: duckduckgo browser for work/professional use, mull for social media, tor for general browsing, I also recently started using MySudo for the same purposes with it's built in browsers
I use one of the searxng instances or startpage.com
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As much as I dislike it, mainly Google still. Sometimes Bing for the AI help. Brave Search is also really good and the only new search engine I can see surpassing Google some day.
Brave's latest update made it so image searches are only through Google or Bing for me. After seeing this, I've been using ecosia.org and it's fantastic!
I use my own instance of SearXNG, its private, and has good settings. It is a few milliseconds slow with some searches taking 1 second.
Big fan of Kagi, though Bing chat is unironically very good for most of my needs.
Google has been worse than Bing for most of the last two years, but Kagi was working better for me than either for the last year. Bing chat is a whole different animal, though.
I've been exclusively using DuckDuckGo until recent controversies, then switched to Metager. It is a privacy-oriented, opensource metasearch engine and they aren't relying on bing/google search results like almost every other search engine.
Results are really good and consistently relevant. But it has some minor annoyances, and recently metager started locking more and more features behind a paywall. I'll keep using it if I won't find better alternative.
I'll give metager a go. Thank you. :)