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

[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.

[janouille@piaille.fr]

@ctt startpage

[the_escapist@mastodon.social]

@ctt @StartpageSearch

[daumenlutscher@fedifreu.de]

@ctt duckduckgo with no AI!

[hammerwell@troet.cafe]

@exiltoaster @ctt Yes, that can't be helped. And they directly state what exactly they do. "With DuckDuckGo, AI is optional and private. We've turned off: AI-assisted answers, AI-generated images, AI feature suggestions

[loyhena@eldritch.cafe]

@ctt

qwant

[viennawriter@literatur.social]

@ctt noai.duckduckgo.com