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

[petebleackley@wandering.shop]

@ctt Mojeek. UK based, independent (own index and crawler) @Mojeek

[robcornelius@climatejustice.social]

@ctt

https://udm14.com/

Google from 1997. No ads, no fucking AI shite.

No one knows why Google has allowed to exist. My guess its a testing thing that made it to production.

[ellierenee@mastodon.social]

I use OmniSearch, it's a metasearch engine, selfhosted.

@ctt

[lironah@mstdn.games]

@ctt Startpage

[b30@social.lol]

@ctt #degoog … selfhosted on a Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/degoog-org/degoog

[gwync@mastodon.coffee]

@ctt qwant.com

[cdn@mastodon.uno]

@ctt https://noai.duckduckgo.com

[zicoxy3@tkz.one]

@ctt SearXNG autohosted

[colettediskette@retro.pizza]

@ctt Local SearXNG instance.

[fedihacker@masto.es]

@ctt Ecoasia or Ecosia?

[lukask@masto.ai]

@ctt startpage

[sanzky@masto.es]

@ctt used DDG for years but recently Ove moved to qwant

[onanist@activitypub.ro]

@ctt my own

[chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net]

@ctt DDG if my searxng instance is broken (which happens every time i upgrade )

[jstark@tweesecake.social]

@ppatel @ctt kagi

[ppatel@mstdn.social]

@jstark Lot of people are using it. I think I'm not interested in yet another subscription. @ctt

[dnk@social.lol]

@ctt Metager – https://metager.de

[fadikkop@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@ctt@social.lol Startpage. DuckDuckGo second

[beaiouns@is.nota.live]

@ctt so there's 3 different versions of DDG (that i know of) and the lite version is my favorite, but i recently set up a SearXNG server might end up being better once i get all the options tweaked how i like it? we will see

i'm not a huge fan of DDG since it's basically just orange bing, but it works, which is more than i can say for some of the other ones. hosting my own search engine is both cool, hip, and rad, i just gotta learn what the hell i'm doing so i can get it to act right

[yexingtudou@kolektiva.social]

@ctt I started using Startpage as my default recently at my friend's suggestion. Depending on my query I find it to be better or worse than DDG, so I switch between the two as needed. Very occasionally I have to use Google for certain personal queries, though I do use Google at work since I can't change the default on my managed machine