Have you #DeGoogled your search?

[roddie@roddie.social]

@Tutanota even better than DuckDuckGo is https://noai.duckduckgo.com (and you can add !sp to the start of your search to query Startpage when you need to broaden your results)

[okuna@social.tchncs.de]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo
I would be careful with startpage

Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American internet advertising company.

System1 is an American Internet advertising company. Formerly known as OpenMail, it was founded in 2013. It describes itself as operating a "Responsive Acquisition Marketing Platform", and cites privacy as one of its principal foci, although it has been criticized for its influence on privacy-focused properties, including search engine Startpage.com. It is headquartered in Marina del Rey, California.
The Startpage acquisition was done through System1's subsidiary Privacy One Group Ltd.

[ea7krc@mastodon.radio]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch
I use 3, Ecosia if I need translate, Swisscows and Qwant

[cveng@mstdn.social]

@phoefer @Tutanota @MetaGer +1 for MetaGer

[anders_s@mastodon.nu]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo From what I can read Qwant primarily use their own index. https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/

[onkelmorfar@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota
Qwant and Ecosia
- as they are building own search index -making us independent of BigTech

[joaofdev@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo What about Brave Search?

[feudjais@eldritch.cafe]

@Tutanota @Mojeek is my favorite.

Focuses are very great because most of the time, you know what websites you want to request.

If you specifically know the website you want to browse, use the search integrated in that website if it exists (you can add shortcuts in your browser so "mdn span" redirects you on MDN website directly on the search results for "span"). If no integrated search exists, use "site:<url>" in Mojeek as you did with Google.

Where Mojeek isn't good enough yet, is for relevance of searches and it is especially annonying when you don't know where you want to end up. But if you think closely, most of the time, you know. For these, use Mojeek first. There's about 50% chance you'll get your result. If you don't find just go to Duckduckgo or something else thanks to shortcuts buttons provided by Mojeek who are humble and do not think they can be satisfying 100% of the times and let you switch quickly to another search engine.

Edit: if you can read French or if your translation is good enough to follow my blog article about searching information on a polluted web : https://garden.plaws.fr/rechercher-des-informations-sur-un-web-pollue

[patrickleavy@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo I'll add an interesting one to the list:
https://uruky.com
They have set up a private search service simliar to Kagi, but that utilises EU search engines under the hood, e.g. Mojeek and others. It is highly configurable and has quick buttons for 'fallback' engines e.g. DDG if your search requires something only they can provide.

Every time you search with Uruky they pay the underlying search engines - boosting indie search!

[lefteristrip23@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota @Qwant browser hasn't been updated for a year. Wouldn't recommend

[alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space]

@Tutanota

1. Qwant
2. Startpage

@ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo

[thoralf@gruene.social]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo The reason why I use Kagi is visible in the 4the row: no ads

The reason why I'd live to see the others adopt this is in the last row: it is a US service, sadly.

So, build a European equivalent and I'll switch.

[dwa@mastodon.social]

@thoralf @Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo There's https://uruky.com/ . Also, as a user of kagi, you are (indirectly) supporting #russia.

[rguy@mastodon.social]

@roddie Yea, I personally use it

[enmark@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota where brave search

[thoralf@gruene.social]

@dwa @Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo

Nice, but not comparable.

It doesn't have its own index and just uses other indices.

But the real bummer: 18+ only.
Kagi has a proper family plan (which essentially makes it even cheaper), so my kids can use it as well.

(And I cannot really follow your thinking that Kagi is somehow supporting Russia.)

[pierrevonkotopo@mastodon.social]

@roddie @Tutanota

My personal choice too.

[alkatraz_200@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo I personally prefer Brave search results, since it has been more reliable for me.

[whjhoek@mastodon.nl]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo
1. On MacOS and Linux: Mullvadd Browser with Qwant search engine
2. On iOS Qwant only.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@rguy @roddie It is a bit of a faff to add manually to Chromium but easier in LibreWolf and easiest in Vivaldi where you add "noai" to the URLs and change the name of the default DuckDuckGo search engine (I change it to NoAI DDG).