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

[kyonshi@dice.camp]

@ctt I am using a searxng installation on my vps, although that's only as good as the search engine it uses. I think by now most of my search results come from bing and ddg, with qwant and ecosia mixed in.

It has its own problems though. It's slightly slower (after all it queries first go to other engines) and for some stuff the results really aren't good. Anytime I search for a specific product available locally I have to turn to Google or ddg instead.

[rickd_card@socialbc.ca]

@ctt StartPage

[scottwilson@infosec.exchange]

@QueerMatters @ctt Oh my gosh, without a doubt!

[vgammieri@mastodon.uno]

@ctt qwant

[hiker@akk.fedcast.ch]

@ctt Startpage

[jasonbeets@newsie.social]

@ctt @cris

Startpage is the default search engine in the Vivaldi browser.

[yuvalne@433.world]

@ctt used to be @ecosia until they started adding AI shit... now it's specifically noai.duckduckgo.com. their filters aren't perfect but at least i'm guaranteed to not get custom-tailored bullshit to my query in the form of a chat window.

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@ctt @Ronnie alright, neat, I'm giving it a shot now!

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@cris @ctt not again, ugh.

[Gæst]

@ctt currently it is qwant

[rusty@cubhub.social]

@ctt I use DuckDuckGo but I mostly use it for the bang system. The amount of actual searches I do on DDG are pretty minimal ​

[akiiwata@plush.city]

@ctt Usually Startpage

[pictor@ohai.social]

@ctt @thibaultmol I’m probably going to give it a go when my Kagi subscription is up.

[infinidoge@meow.social]

@ctt Self-hosted SearXNG

[edbruce@infosec.exchange]

@ctt I general start with Mojeek, but results have gotten worse lately. Will then switch to Goolge settng the udm=??? (forget which one). If that doesn't give decent results I'll start up Bromure which is a VM browser on my Mac and use StartPage. If that doesn't give good results, while still using Bromure, I connect to perplexity.ai with an anonymized email and connected thru a CloudflareWARP daemon. Generally ignore the results and just copy all the URLs provided and manually go thru them.

[rholas@mamutovo.cz]

@ctt Qwant

[eileenottawa@mstdn.ca]

@cris @ctt Started using startpage a few months ago after using Ecosia. Much prefer Startpage.

[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.