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

[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

[john@social.gozzys.com]

@ctt Startpage is the default in Vivaldi and I find the results are solid and the anonymous visit options are handy from time to time.

[munin@mastoart.social]

@ctt Been using Qwant and Startpage for a while now.

[vksxypants@mastodon.social]

@ctt Other: Qwant

https://www.qwant.com/

[ruedi@social.cologne]

@ctt
Startpage

[dorian@retro.social]

@ctt I use searxng. It combines results from the various big names.

[foxyloon@blimps.xyz]

@ctt I specifically use the No-AI version of DuckDuckGo, and it's basically the only search engine that still somewhat works from my experience after trying a number of these search engines.

[wizardwes@mstdn.games]

@ctt SearxNG for me

[samueljohnson@mstdn.social]

@ctt SearXNG (self-hosted), the noai version of DDG for trivial lookups.

[lhauser@mefi.social]

@ctt Kagi is so absolutely worth every penny I pay for it.

[si2mev@mastodon.social]

@ctt Startpage or Qwant, but ddg is also good.

[thollief@stereophonic.space]

@ctt qwant.com

[d_rift@beige.party]

@ctt Lycos is still around (I've been told; doesn't work for me), and in Europe Seznam (Czech based) can be helpful. I'm trying to switch to more directory services like Curlie. https://curlie.org/

[d_rift@beige.party]

@ctt Links from video descriptions and references from the bottom of wikipedia pages have also been more useful to me lately than direct searches.

[athesis@xn--ratatskr-r4a.de]

@ctt Selfhosted SearxNG

[thesunnyone@social.treehouse.systems]

@ctt we are currently testing out one called Qwant