I mainly use DDG, including bangs to search other sites, but I occasionally still use Google if I'm having trouble finding something.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I use duckduckgo. One thing I notice about the google language is that my phone has french as the os language so google will be in french but then I go to a computer that has english as it's language, sign in and google will be in french (even though my account is set to english). So check your OS and browser language settings on all devices you signed in on.
I'm solely an English speaker so it's not th case for me but thank you for the suggestion.
A mix of Qwant, Ecosia, and Startpage.
I changed to Metager https://metager.org/ … it’s the only one I’ve found that still respects yer "string search"
Brave search but am looking for something else now that image search has been removed.
actually google.
all other search engines give worse results, buggy (I'm looking at you, searx; it fails very frequently), or just have worse ui/ux
also, with region set to Ukraine and searching in English/Ukrainian i get a lot of russian websites for some reason.
I can't stand russian and i fully blocked the whole .ru/.su tld.
They are of no use to me anyway.
google still suggests them even with language filters (lang:...)
Google for ordinary search. For more challenging qwant, searX.
Perplexity. It saves me a lot of time.
startpage
I decided to try to commit to Brave since it's the sole one to use open maps while DDG uses Apple.
I use startpage, I usually prefer it's results to ddg
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...
Surprising no one has said Metager yet, very privacy focused search engine, no hassle.
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. :)
What controversies? I'm out of the loop and I use duckduckgo
I use DDG on desktop and Google on mobile. Unfortunately Google still has some conveniences that I can't give up just yet.
I use MullvadVPN and recently started using Mullvads leta search service. It is basically a Front End for Googles Search APi. The result of an external audit was released recently.
The results arengood so far, but I'm not sure if I'll be using it long term.
DDG all the way
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.