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

[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

[gwenhael@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ctt https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

[liilliil@mastodon.online]

@ctt astalavista.box.sk

[sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog]

@ctt I've never heard of Uruky, but of the others the least worst is DDG.

[daniil@mk.phreedom.club]

@ctt@social.lol Wikipedia

[lucdam77@mastodon.uno]

@ctt
Io uso mozilla

[fredatron@wandering.shop]

@ctt If Duckduckgo doesn't give me what I need, I go back to Google, but accessed through https://udm14.com/, so I don't have to deal with the unwanted gen-AI stuff.

[pri@cyberplace.social]

@ctt Startpage

[radgryd@mstdn.games]

@ctt Startpage

[nwbt@social.nearerandfarther.com]

@ctt Watching this thread for insight into alternatives to DuckDuckGo, which is teeming with slop for me these days. (Kagi's out, can't do another sub right now.)

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@cris @ctt

Same: Startpage.

[osma@mas.to]

Qwant

also, it's Ecosia, not Ecoasia. Well, maybe the latter exists, too?
@ctt

[kaspian@mastodontti.fi]

@ctt

Qwant