I’ll go first. I’ve used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I’m currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg’s but at least I’m planting trees, so there’s that.
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DuckDuckGo. I can’t live without !bangs.
Do you mean like !google or !amazon ? I use ddg. Just making sure I know what you mean
DuckDuckGo, but I’ve been testing Qwant (also privacy focused) lately as well.
SearX-ng
It’s not comparable in quality at all…
It can literally use any search engine you think of as a backend, so its strictly higher quality? Unless thats what you meant
Isn’t that hard to determine without specifying which engines are used in your chosen instance? Searx/Searng has provided superior results for me using a combination of engines compared to anything provided by any of the alternatives by themselves.
Kagi. Yes, it’s paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:
- Actual privacy
- No BS like with DDG
- AI features (like a “quick answer” feature that’s really useful)
- Has its own index along with others
- Search results are great, probably better than DDG’s
- “Lenses” (basically narrow results by a set of sites)
- Devs are pretty cool
For some reason the thought of a paid search engine has never even crossed by mind before. I’ve been using DDG but this has peaked my curiosity. Thank you.
Edit: The pricing is… very… meh.
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So you’re basically paying for a proxy for Google and Bing search?
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It’s so worth it.
It is very meh. But I think if you’re able to, it’s well worth the price. Just don’t get the standard plan. That one is god awful.
I didn’t know it was privacy focused or that they were building their own index, that’s really cool. Do you think it’s worth the money?
It’s only a few bucks a month. I think so.
The only thing I don’t like is needing to be logged in to search. That always feels like a huge invasion of privacy. The at least claim that they don’t log search contents though
Bit biased cause I’ve had it for a while and have a ‘legacy plan’. But even without that, absolutely.
Love Kagi. I switched and never had any reason to use Google again. Its that good.
Kagi is absolutely wonderful. Highly recommend giving it ago. Gives me better results than google while having a fair privacy policy
Kagi. Yes, it’s paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:
Huh. I hadn’t heard of this one before, but I think I’m going to have to try it out.
I’ve been using Kagi for a few months now and I love it. When I think about how much of my life revolves around accurate information, the price is negligible.
I want to give it a try but it’s hard to justify the cost with limited searches. I don’t want to have to keep track of how many times I’ve searched or second guess if I “really need to search for that”.
Startpage. It uses Googles results, but you will not get tracked that much
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SearX-NG, coming off DuckDuckGo it wasn’t a major change in the internal structure (the search gets relayed over to a larger search engine), but there’s no one company behind it like DDG. They’ve been working together with Microsoft on some rather sketchy things.
I would still love to self-host something decent (that doesn’t relay over to a company), but nothing like that exists as far as I know.
From what i know the exemption thing was only in the app and has been removed by now and so far the alternatives are… Not very Suitable for everyday use, at least for me.
I’ve heard similar things several times, so I’ve been staying away. I should move more of my daily tasks to different self-hosted or non-corporate services.
Most small search engines use bing results which are a hit or miss compared to Google.
Startpage is the only privacy focused one I found that uses Google search results. The UI is fine for the most part, except the image search maybe.
Edit: typo
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Duck Duck Go. It just works for me. I’ve never had a problem with it’s results.
Duckduckgo for the most part, especially if I already know where I want to get to. Google as a backup like others are saying.
duckduckgo primarily, but have been starting to dabble with a self hosted Whoogle.
DDG first, Google if that fails and I think the query should have gotten good results, Bing Chat if I’m still really not sure about a topic or if I want some of its summarization (or I’m just feeling lazy).
DuckDuckGo
Brave search since its okayish in terms of queries (the summarizer is a nice touch) but I really like the !bangs. Images and video though…disappointed
Just Google, unless I’m looking to pirate something. Then I use Yandex.
I hate adds. I was using Neeva. Just switched to Kagi. After nearly 3 weeks, it looks like 300 searches/month will work for me. So $5 a month is fine.
