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

[fxk8y@furry.engineer]

@ctt used this as a hint to dry out duckduckgo and again, and nope, sadly not electronics ready yet (edit: see posts below!)

I try this from time to time, throwing like "lm393 datasheet" at it, measuring how long I must scroll for a proper deep link to some PDF.

Google does this *very* consistently, so that's what I'll continue using

[woodrow@soc.osp.gay]

@ctt SearxNG B>

[glipari@social.sciences.re]

@ctt
Actually, I switch between several, mostly duckduck go and ecosia.

[microtato@techhub.social]

@ctt Why is Uruky on here but not startpage?

[nasenspray@metalhead.club]

@ctt Qwant

[hurt138@mastodon.social]

@cris @ctt also StartPage

[gandhithedergrawr@derg.social]

@ctt@social.lol Searxng, with the default search engines enabled in the docker image

[josefmoosbauer@graz.social]

@Almabtrieb @ctt NoAiDDG too

[aldonogueira@masto.donte.com.br]

@ctt ecoasia? Wtf? It's ecosia

[aldonogueira@masto.donte.com.br]

@ikonoklast @ctt @deedo i think they would reset the poll

[pavlovscat@mastodonapp.uk]

@ctt Startpage

[alsternerd@akkoma.alster.space]

@ctt Qwant

[teknomagic@todon.eu]

@ctt I use Qwant

[r4mp@procial.tchncs.de]

@ctt@social.lol SearXNG

[uwe_m@rheinneckar.social]

@ctt
Startpage ‍️

[__j5s7__@mastodon.social]

@ctt MetaGer (https://metager.de/)

[ulfi@troet.cafe]

@ctt
Mojeekp / qwant /startpage

[lock@norden.social]

@wortezimmer @CppGuy @cris @ctt this +1

[sebhans@hachyderm.io]

@ctt Qwant

[exiltoaster@fedifreu.de]

@Hammerwell @ctt But even there, in the results are more and more websites that are AI generated and actually have no relevant content to the topic you are looking for.