I was using Brave until last month. They did something and now image search redirects to Google/Bing so might as well use Google I guess...
Oh and also the normal search results got really bad all of a sudden.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Wow, glad I'm not the only one who had that impression. I have been using Brave Search for about half a year now and rarely had any problems finding what I was looking for, then eventually I started getting mostly older results, sometimes not even on topic.
startpage
I use startpage, I usually prefer it's results to ddg
Surprising no one has said Metager yet, very privacy focused search engine, no hassle.
Like several others, self hosted searxng instance. Suits me perfectly
I just recently started using Startpage. The results to me so far seem pretty good but im in a country where I speak the language. And I like that it doesn't save my searches. For that I use DDG.
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.
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Google for ordinary search. For more challenging qwant, searX.
Hosting my own Whoogle and LibreX, they work decently well for my purpose.
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
but yeah i agree, regional bs is an issue. 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:...)
I use both startpage and duckduckgo, I use different browsers for different uses. For example: duckduckgo browser for work/professional use, mull for social media, tor for general browsing, I also recently started using MySudo for the same purposes with it's built in browsers
I changed to Metager https://metager.org/ … it’s the only one I’ve found that still respects yer "string search"
I mainly use DDG, including bangs to search other sites, but I occasionally still use Google if I'm having trouble finding something.
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.