Maybe kagi? I use it and like it

For a while I was self hosting whoogle but it's been kind of problematic and gets rate limited very quickly. I have been looking at switching to searxng. For both of these you can find some hosted for the public but their security may not be as robust as a company like duck duck go would be. It's a shame too that duckduckgo does actually collect data and send it to Microsoft as part of their agreement in order to use bing as their backend.

How many times are you gonna make this post?

All I want is a search engine that 1. doesn't make moral judgements on the results relevant to a search, 2. filters out ai and ad farm results by default, and 3. can be toggled to effectively search web 1.0-style forums.

DDG is still the best.

Stop asking this same question repeatedly.

I like Mojeek. It even has an option to search without using locational data, which is something that's important to me.

I'm pretty sure I was able to just go to mojeek.com, right click the address bar, and add it to Firefox. I didn't need an add-on or anything like that.

I use seaxrng everyday, ddg if I cant find something and startpage for 🏴‍☠️

What shit did they pull with their app?

Disclaimer - Spend your money how you want. Use what works for your needs and moral standing. This post is a data point for consideration, not an endorsement.

I use Kagi with the unlimited search paid version. Whether it's my own needs, friends, family, etc, I always seem to be the one doing the searching for everyone I interact with. After years of Google feeding more and more sponsored links into the results I switched to DDG, and after about 6 months of finding their results lackluster I tried Kagi.

For me, it works. I don't know that I'll use it forever or anything but at the moment it does a better job of getting me reliable results within the first few sites and I can move on with my day. I just need quick, accurate search results. So far Kagi has been that.

I did the free trial thing a couple times to see how it worked before paying and I'd suggest that to anyone thinking about switching. Give it a week or two on trial accounts and if it sucks then it probably isn't for you.

I’m not sure about how private it is, but I use Ecosia for my search engine. It works great for me, and the images are alright. They are pretty transparent with their privacy, and you help plant trees too!

I like DogPile. It lets you get results from Yahoo! directory, Lycos, Excite, WebCrawler, Infoseek, AltaVista, WhatUSeek, and HotBot.

AskJeeves works pretty well too.

Maybe Kagi (paid) or Searxng. I use mostly searxng but some kagi options are nice like blocking results from certain domains or lower their appearance in results...

You can just right click on the url bar to add search engines to firefox, I did that for the nixos package repository and youtube.

As for duck duck go, you can try searxng instances though you are putting your trust in some random admins in that case.

Mullvad leta but it requires a mullvad account and that you're connected to your vpn

www.presearch.com ?