I just recently started using Startpage. The results to me so far seem pretty good but im in a country where I speak the language. And I like that it doesn't save my searches. For that I use DDG.
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I have been using brave search for a few weeks, and the results seem pretty good so far.
I just run a searxng instance for myself. Fetches from multiple sources.
I've heard good things about kagi, but it does require paying for (though you can try out a free tier to see if it'll work for you)
Presearch. I run a node and get paid for running it. The searches are solid as well.
I tried you.com for a long period of time. It has some nice ways to present content but overall I too often did not find what I was looking for so I switched back to startpage.com as unpersonalized version of Google.
Selfhosted SearxNG with Google and duckduckgo
Ddg, brave and startpage
I use DDG pretty exclusively. I've never had issues with it, I set it as default and didn't think about it after that
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 DDG and im pretty happy with it. I now pretty much only use google if i need to find working hours and location of a store on google maps, as DDG doesnt have that information as obviously available
Ecosia, but I need to setup a SearXNG instance sometime.
I'm using Startpage.com (can set the location - I also have the problem that I use a VPN and keep getting not the language I want. IDK how to make it stick though), and Kagi paid for a bit now.
DuckDuckGo always
Today I tried Googling something about following kbin magazines on lemmy and got 0 relevant results on the first page. Then I entered the same search on DuckDuckGo and the first few results were all relevant to my search. Finally I decided to make the permanent switch to DuckDuckGo. Google has been undergoing enshitification for a long time now. Ever since I started needing to include Reddit at the end of all my searches. Since I no longer want to include Reddit in my searches, I need to find a better search engine in general and hopefully DDG can be that.
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I use Ecosia. Supposedly I've done enough searches for 241 trees to be planted, and I've yet to see anything that suggests they dont follow through with the promise to fund the planting of trees (although I've not actively looked). I think it's backed by bing so the results are a bit iffy sometimes, but I use the equivalent of ddg bangs to search Google if I need
Ecosia on my desktop (plus some experiments with Kagi), DuckDuckGo on my phone (although sometimes Google's search widget for quick questions and conversions).
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
Gruble.de, eine Searxng Instanz welche von Adminforge betrieben wird
yandex for sailing the piraseas, SearNX instance for everything else.
Hosting my own Whoogle and LibreX, they work decently well for my purpose.