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

[foolishowl@social.coop]

@ctt I run a SearXNG instance, which uses several search engines at once and collates the results.

[crazypedia@mypocketpals.online]

@ctt@social.lol I host my own #SearXNG

[timhare@hachyderm.io]

@ctt Mine is Google out of habit, not preference. The AI insertion is getting ridiculous.

[jbriancoyle@mas.to]

@ctt
Startpage

[scrottie@bsd.network]

Often just using the udm14.com wrapper around Google =( but experimenting with https://marginalia-search.com https://stract.com https://www.mojeek.com https://openwebengine.com https://searxng.site https://curlie.org https://yacy.net and https://www.qwant.com . Most of those most of the time can't find anything a bit obscure. curlie is great for things in its curated collection. I'd like to see more of that. Crawling might be dead unless you're Google/Microsoft and have a backdoor to sites past Cloudflare etc. Often trying one then another. In the past, I've had my default search engine set to Wikipedia's search too but with the corporate takeover of Wikipedia we may lose even that.

[vikingkong@misskey.vikingkong.xyz]

@ctt@social.lol SearxNG.

[richardcox13@mastodon.world]

@ctt No AI Duckduckgo

[fred@feedbeat.me]

@ctt Qwant

[lproven@social.vivaldi.net]

@ctt Dogpile FTW.

Free from automatic idiocy and plagiarism, simple, old fashioned and fast.

[annasdtc@sciences.social]

@ctt it used to be DDG but I was struggling to deactivate the AI summaries of everything

[javensbukan@cosocial.ca]

@ctt Qwant

[simon@sueden.social]

@ctt Startpage

[citizenk@tooting.ch]

@ctt Qwant

[djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com]

@ctt startpage

[asbjornn@expressional.social]

@ctt using Qwant mostly

[triploidtree@mastodon.ie]

@ctt mojeek and startpage.

Search remains dead though. Mojeek has limited reach and startpage is white label bing (like ddg).

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@ctt

jfc

Brave - isn't the owner a fascist (no but homophobic)

Uruky cost money

Kagi you hae to give uup your privacy (email) before yo ucan use it

[odkr@tldr.nettime.org]

@ctt Qwant, because they maintain their own index, rather than just repackaging Google and Bing

[book@beige.party]

@ctt Qwant / startpage

[psistarpsiii@tacobelllabs.net]

@ctt I’ve been using qwant but for technical info I’m finding it is deeply inadequate.