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

[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.

[bhasic@mastodon.social]

@ctt Qwant

[bencomp@code4lib.social]

@ctt Qwant

[john@social.gozzys.com]

@ctt Startpage is the default in Vivaldi and I find the results are solid and the anonymous visit options are handy from time to time.

[munin@mastoart.social]

@ctt Been using Qwant and Startpage for a while now.

[vksxypants@mastodon.social]

@ctt Other: Qwant

https://www.qwant.com/

[ruedi@social.cologne]

@ctt
Startpage

[dorian@retro.social]

@ctt I use searxng. It combines results from the various big names.

[foxyloon@blimps.xyz]

@ctt I specifically use the No-AI version of DuckDuckGo, and it's basically the only search engine that still somewhat works from my experience after trying a number of these search engines.

[wizardwes@mstdn.games]

@ctt SearxNG for me

[samueljohnson@mstdn.social]

@ctt SearXNG (self-hosted), the noai version of DDG for trivial lookups.

[lhauser@mefi.social]

@ctt Kagi is so absolutely worth every penny I pay for it.