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

[ctt@social.lol]

@Ronnie I hadn’t until about a month ago. I haven’t tried it. It’s a European based, subscription search engine with a focus on privacy.

[cris@social.lol]

@ctt Startpage

[jasonbeets@newsie.social]

@ctt

DuckDuckGo is my default.

Startpage.com is pretty good too.

[ctt@social.lol]

@jasonbeets @cris I had not heard of Startpage.

[claude@meow.social]

@ctt Mojeek and Marginalia Search.

[stomata@procial.tchncs.de]

@ctt@social.lol i use searxng

[teacher_rick@mastodon.nl]

@ctt Qwant on laptop; Ecosia on mobile.

[cris@social.lol]

@ctt honestly I’m not loving it, but it’s where I retreat to when someone in leadership at Kagi turned out to be a transphobic fascist

[deedo@mastodon.nl]

@ctt you mean Ecosia?

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@ctt I’ve used DDG for quite a while but have issues with it on my old phone (cannot eradicate their AI assist).

But am testing the waters a bit with Qwant, because I use Waterfox and they have made it their default https://www.waterfox.com/blog/waterfox-partners-qwant/

[ctt@social.lol]

@deedo Probably. Thank you. I type and read sometimes faster than I think!

[luddchem@mastodon.social]

@ctt Like many, I use Google. Also like many others, I supect, this is sheer inertia - memories of pre- enshittification days. Are there any others which are genuine free of AI crap and are likely to remain so?

[gary@social.lol]

@ctt DuckDuckGo mostly, but more recently the no ai version https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

[engravecavedave@mastodon.social]

@ctt StartPage

[tamsin@toot.wales]

@ctt I don't have one they all suck these days! I've tried ecosia and duckduckgo but the top results are usually AI slop now. I revert to Google occasionally if I need a better search (with the ai summary disabled) or more often go to a specific site directly (e.g Stackoverflow/Reddit/Wikipedia depending on topic)

[v_d_richards@literatur.social]

@ctt
Quant

[davidhund@waag.social]

@ctt startpage

[ligfries@mastodon.green]

@ctt a mixture of sources. Always AI disabled. When I already know roughly it can be any. Otherwise ask #mastodon.

[roturier@mastodon.partipirate.org]

@ctt
SearX via BOC47
@boc47

[laryllan@nerdculture.de]

@ctt
Qwant
@dianea