Startpage is great and uses g00g's search index. DuckDuckGo used to be my goto, but then they switched to using Microsoft Bing's search index.
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DuckDuckGo always
I mix and match.
DuckDuckGo is my main one, but I often find myself just using bangs and either throwing in !brave or !g before some searches because sometimes the results aren't as relevant as I'd like.
I obviously don't like Google, but if I need super quick results, they're typically better for me, though they've honestly become ridiculously terrible over the last couple of years.
Not just because of promoted content, but because they don't even seem to care about syntax anymore.
If I put quotes around a search term, Google seems to ignore it. Why? Who knows.
As much as I have... let's say mixed feelings about Brave, I find myself using !brave more and more on DDG. More relevant results, at least in my looooong experience of using DDG as my primary.
Startpage doesn't like me because VPN or whatever, otherwise I'd use it more.
I sometimes use a SearxNG instance as well, but that's only if I'm really struggling to find something.
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Sadly, I use Google. Their query syntax is so good and can be so precise in their results. I wish to get any search engine with that quality in their query syntax.
Ecosia and DuckDuckGo
Me too. I prefer to use ddg-lite since I like my software to be minimalist. Ecosia provides good search results(maybe even better than ddg), a lot better than mojeek IMO. I use mojeek to find exotic content.
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
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
DDG all the way
Startpage primarily because I was told that the Google results are better than DuckDuckGo but I never noticed any big difference except that Startpage has deactivated NSFW content by default. DuckDuckGo feels a little bit snappier and less cluttered tho.
Brave Search on all my personal devices, even though I'm getting worse results than up to a few months ago, so as much as it pains to admit it I sometimes use Google as a fallback (and the last time I actually used Google as my main search engine was back in 2012!). I probably should use metasearch engines more, though, but have been procrastinating learning how to effectively use them for a while now.
Aside from that, I have about a dozen sites saved with search keywords on Firefox (four of them are Wikipedia in different languages, though) that I use all the time.
hey, at least you admit it's not that good! I don't think there's any reliable search engine anymore. :(
I recently tried Brave and Duckduckgo, but I always come back to Startpage. It's a little bit slow but search result more satisfied for me.
Gruble.de, eine Searxng Instanz welche von Adminforge betrieben wird
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.
Presearch. I run a node and get paid for running it. The searches are solid as well.
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Brave search but am looking for something else now that image search has been removed.
Would https://google.com/ncr help you? It's google "no country redirect"
Doesn't work for me. It goes straight to google.com without anything after it. :/
Ddg, brave and startpage
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...
I use DDG on desktop and Google on mobile. Unfortunately Google still has some conveniences that I can't give up just yet.
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 changed to Metager https://metager.org/ … it’s the only one I’ve found that still respects yer "string search"