My go to search engine is (please boost for greater exposure):

[sinvega@mas.to]

@ctt startpage, but they started with the fucking pissbots in a side panel not long ago too, so it's only a matter of time

occasionally use marginalia but that's very prone to finding nothing at all

[steveclough@metalhead.club]

@ctt DuckDuckGo at home - Ecosia on my work computer.

[lynastral@catgirl.center]

@ctt@social.lol searxng, otherwise startpage

[eggbreakerdotexe@transfem.social]

@ctt@social.lol Startpage

[theorem_poem@mstdn.social]

@ctt Google, but switching to duckduckgo and ecosia

[kleisli@mastodon.social]

@ctt actually it's @ecosia but I selected ecoasia instead.

[fizzfizzpopop@veganism.social]

@ctt Vivaldi

[pondolo@bologna.one]

@ctt

Free metasearch
https://searxng.noho.st/x/

More info
https://searx.space/

[shumann78@mastodon.uno]

@ctt qwant

[blotosmetek@circumstances.run]

@ctt currently StartPage, as this is Vivaldi's default. I tried Qwant, but didn't like it.

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@ctt Startpage

[paul@hades.town]

@ctt duckduckgo or mojeek depending on what I'm searching for. If I'm asking a question it's mojeek, if I'm searching for something specific and well defined or computer related then ddg

[underseamonkey@fosstodon.org]

@ctt Qwant.

[cosminoprescu@mastodon.social]

@ctt Qwant

[nomadologist@toot.si]

@ctt Startpage

[mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl]

@ctt@social.lol Startpage.com, so Google with extra steps

[aemstuz@mastodon.com.pl]

@ctt Recently, Qwant. Thought it’s far from ideal… I’m thinking of going back to DuckDuckGo.

[thezosia@mastodon.com.pl]

@ctt
Qwant

[mayumi@plasmatrap.com]

@ctt@social.lol Startpage

[robinsyl@meow.social]

@ctt Startpage. It's yet another service that resells Bing and Google like DDG does but it's based in the Netherlands