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

[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

[svuorela@helvede.net]

@ctt qwant

[nezchan@wandering.shop]

@ctt

Mostly Qwant right now since it's the default on Waterfox, and Marginalia now and then since it mostly doesn't pick up AI sites and also pretty good for recipes of all things.

Thinking about switching Qwant back to 1.org, briefly Waterfox's previous default, since it seemed more responsive.

[kinsale42@mstdn.games]

@ctt waterfox private (paid)

[dvdlite@hachyderm.io]

@ctt @timbray Self-hosted SearXNG behind a gluetun vpn sidecar