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

[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.

[madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net]

@ctt

SearchXNG - a local instance on my own server at home. It's like Google when Google was good.

[frehi@fosstodon.org]

@ctt
Qwant

[maker_tom@famichiki.jp]

@ctt
Because Waterfox changed to Qwant I almost tried it but it is not available outside of Europe so I still use NoAI DDG

[laserdiscturtle@mas.to]

@ctt I've been using StartPage lately.

[verobeeee@newwest.social]

@ctt I clicked DuckDuckGo but it's actually NoAIDuckDuckGo.

[peterru@climatejustice.social]

@ctt
startpage

[trashheap@tech.lgbt]

@ctt

Waterfox Private Search

[dyrathror@mastodon.social]

@ctt
Startpage & Qwant

[dermb@sueden.social]

@ctt Startpage and Qwant