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I stopped using Google years ago. I started using Bing but had to stop that as it would divert me to MSN to sign in when clicking a link for a news article. Like a news article for The Independent or The Times or any other.
I then started using DuckDuckGo which is powered by Bing, but found it wasn’t great at many searches.
I now use Arc Search most of the time and click browse for me to get the information I want without the bullshit. Search is essentially dead due to greed.
Startpage and Qwant are the best alternatives IMO.
https://www.qwant.com/
https://www.startpage.com/
Tried start page after DDG outage on Thursday and I'm liking it a lot
Start page was out too afaik
Nope I tried it precisely when DDG was out and it was working.... Images were not so those may have come from Bing... But regular searches were working
Weird, it was out when I tried it
Well they official word is that it was intermittent... Maybe I just got lucky when testing
it shouldn't have been because they return google search results and not bing