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

[u_urban@social.tchncs.de]

@ctt

MetaGer

@MetaGer

[almabtrieb@mastodon.social]

@ctt NoAiduckduckgo

[alekov@fosstodon.org]

@ctt searXNG, either self hosted or one of the public instances

[michaela@meerjungfrauengrotte.de]

@ctt
SearNGX

[mark_aurel@social.tchncs.de]

@ctt SearXNG

[kunstbanause@nrw.social]

@ctt SearXNG (selfhosted ) for personal use. As I cannot access it at work, I use qwant in those cases.

[schwestaline@mastodon.social]

@ctt Startpage

[esskah@hessen.social]

@ctt startpage and qwant

[samanthajanesmith@lgbtqia.space]

@ctt @Ronnie How have you found it? I read a few reviews that the actual search results aren't great.

[pacovelobs@mamot.fr]

@ctt
NoAI DuckDuckGo.

[lebochequirit@social.tchncs.de]

@ctt
Startpage

[judy@ruby.social]

@ctt https://www.qwant.com/

[annasdtc@sciences.social]

@steter @ctt thank you!

[annasdtc@sciences.social]

@tromo @ctt thank you!

[phf@mastodon.de]

@ctt NoAI option

[anguadelphine@mk.absturztau.be]

@ctt@social.lol

Maybe you misspelled, but mine was Ecosia; dodging the AI tab.

Currently trialling Qwant, now I remembered how to set the default and as SE line in Vivaldi.

Also I tend to use Urban Dictionary a lot.

[jirka@mamutovo.cz]

@ctt Mozilla

[muse_and_ponder@mastodon.social]

@cris @ctt Same here.

[richardcrawshaw@mastodon.green]

@ctt StartPage from Vivaldi. Though I revert to Google for maps.

[channelowen@fosstodon.org]

@ctt I haven't seen anyone mention https://maapl.net
No US infra, and Im not using any AI via it