duckduckgo primarily, but have been starting to dabble with a self hosted Whoogle.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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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
Love Kagi. I switched and never had any reason to use Google again. Its that good.
Kagi. Yes, itβs 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 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.
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.
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.
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Kagi is absolutely wonderful. Highly recommend giving it ago. Gives me better results than google while having a fair privacy policy
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.
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Another DuckDuckGo user here. I really like it but wish I could use boolean with it.
You can, it just works a bit differently than google if that is what youβre used to. It doesnβt outright exclude results with -, just de-emphasizes it in the results, of course with how tailored many web pages are to gaming search algorithms that doesnβt do much. If you want to outright eliminate certain websites from the search you can do that with -site:siteyouwantgone.here
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.
Duckduckgo, works like I want it to and it's not Google. Never had a problem with its search results either. Tried several others as well including searx and ecosia but I found their image search inferior to ddg's.
Kagi is better though. I was using ddg for a long time but had to use Google now and then to get good results.
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.
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.
DDG, it works well enough for me, and not that I got used to bangs I cannot let go of them
Startpage most of the time but its so slow in showing you the result. When im using the web for studying i just use google without an account because its just WAY faster
Duck Duck Go. It just works for me. I've never had a problem with it's results.
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).
Ecosia on desktop, DuckDuckGo on mobile.
I use Brave Search. wAs going to switch to Neeva but they are shutting down now.
DuckDuckGo, but I've been testing Qwant (also privacy focused) lately as well.
I use Bing just because it was immediately available when I decided I didn't want to use Google anymore.
Duckduckgo for the most part, especially if I already know where I want to get to. Google as a backup like others are saying.
brave search on desktop, DDG on mobile.
I hope this mullvad project will work out
The only problem I've come across with Mullvad is that it's so tight that I can't even access the internet at work on that browser lol
Google, because of inertia and not being given a good reason to switch.
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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DuckDuckGo
Just Google, unless I'm looking to pirate something. Then I use Yandex.
I'm using DuckDuckGo but I'm going to switch back to Brave Search when images will be ready
Ever since Bing introduced their AI stuff I've been trialing it + Edge on my main computer. It's not so bad but sometimes I do need to use Google to actually find what I'm looking for. Currently using Google on everything else though. The AI stuff is actually pretty good but I feel like if Google makes their implementation more widespread most people are just going to use that vs Bing.
Google most of the time, Yandex if I need to find pictures. Their image search is more like Google's before they nerfed it. I've used Qwant off and on in the past and rather liked it.
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