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

[scottwilson@infosec.exchange]

@QueerMatters @ctt Oh my gosh, without a doubt!

[vgammieri@mastodon.uno]

@ctt qwant

[hiker@akk.fedcast.ch]

@ctt Startpage

[jasonbeets@newsie.social]

@ctt @cris

Startpage is the default search engine in the Vivaldi browser.

[yuvalne@433.world]

@ctt used to be @ecosia until they started adding AI shit... now it's specifically noai.duckduckgo.com. their filters aren't perfect but at least i'm guaranteed to not get custom-tailored bullshit to my query in the form of a chat window.

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@ctt @Ronnie alright, neat, I'm giving it a shot now!

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@cris @ctt not again, ugh.

[Gæst]

@ctt currently it is qwant

[rusty@cubhub.social]

@ctt I use DuckDuckGo but I mostly use it for the bang system. The amount of actual searches I do on DDG are pretty minimal ​

[akiiwata@plush.city]

@ctt Usually Startpage

[pictor@ohai.social]

@ctt @thibaultmol I’m probably going to give it a go when my Kagi subscription is up.

[infinidoge@meow.social]

@ctt Self-hosted SearXNG

[edbruce@infosec.exchange]

@ctt I general start with Mojeek, but results have gotten worse lately. Will then switch to Goolge settng the udm=??? (forget which one). If that doesn't give decent results I'll start up Bromure which is a VM browser on my Mac and use StartPage. If that doesn't give good results, while still using Bromure, I connect to perplexity.ai with an anonymized email and connected thru a CloudflareWARP daemon. Generally ignore the results and just copy all the URLs provided and manually go thru them.

[rholas@mamutovo.cz]

@ctt Qwant

[eileenottawa@mstdn.ca]

@cris @ctt Started using startpage a few months ago after using Ecosia. Much prefer Startpage.

[heathen_cat@furs.social]

@ctt
The free trial of Kagi was pretty good, but I burned through my 100 searches fast refining terms.

[astrohyde@mastodon.social]

@ctt mojeek is pretty great, I use it 90% of the time now

[paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ctt

Startpage is OK. Kinda.

SearXNG should also be on that list.

[bhasic@mastodon.social]

@ctt Qwant

[bencomp@code4lib.social]

@ctt Qwant