I use Startpage, everything else kind of sucks imo.
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duck duck go is like firefox for me. I use it currently but im sorta moving away from it. I don't really have a good ddg replacement though.
As much as I hate Microslop, I've been primarily using Bing because of the whole rewards thing they have. Although, I obviously wouldn't recommend using it and instead would recommend DuckDuckGo, Ecosia or OceanHero.
For those who haven't heard of OceanHero, their goal is somewhat similar to Ecosia but they work towards cleaning the Ocean.
I'm using Metager - you pay a very small amount per search, the amount is defined by which indexes and options you configure to use. It's pretty cheap - I loaded up 10€ a few months ago and still have about 2/3 left, and it's adfree. There is also the option to use completely anonymous tokens to "pay" for your searches, which uses a little bit more of your balance, but can't be tied back to your account. Search settings are saved only locally in the history - using the browser extension prevents losing your settings when deleting browser data.
search.brave.com is pretty good, as is DuckDuckGo. But I've lately taken a liking to qwant.com. it's pretty good and not American.
Right now I alternate between DuckDuckGo and Ecosia. Google results have been getting worse and the forcing of AI summaries was the final straw for me to stop using even the !g shortcut in DDG. At least DDG let's you disable them.
Ecosia mainly, I used to use kagi which I liked but I wasn't sure it was worth the cost although I was thinking about using it again as I really like their small web stuff.
I also used yandex for piracy stuff, I think they ignore all DMCA takedowns or something so it's much easier to find stuff on it
SeaeXNG, self hosted. Although my setup is a bit sketch... There are a few decent public instances available
eTools and DDG, sometimes google/startpage. I'm surprised how little known eTools is.
Startpage (which is a proxy for bing, but... Yeah)
Not a traditional one, but https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/tvZQHU4Dbf. And if it doesn't show the results I want, I use Ecosia.
At home I use startpage. I find much better than ddg.
At work i use
- Startpage
- Bing
Because Im working with a MS product at work, sometimes Bing get better results when I search for something very specific work related.
4get, I self host an instance
I've been using the HTML only version of DuckDuckGo as my default since Google made JS mandatory to run searches. It works ok for most of the simple queries I make. (e.g. looking something up from the Python docs, MDN, etc.) I resort to Google still for the stuff it completely flubs.
Gone from probably 99% Google + 1% of other to maybe something like 95% DDG + 5% other (mostly Google).
DDG performance has dropped for me. I use a mix of their app and Firefox loaded with a searxng.
Works like old Google, No ads, tends to reduce SEO sloop that DDG is susceptible to.
Quick! Look it up on AltaVista!
Went from DDG to start page. I’d use kagi if they weren’t frugal with searches.
