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

[d_rift@beige.party]

@ctt Links from video descriptions and references from the bottom of wikipedia pages have also been more useful to me lately than direct searches.

[athesis@xn--ratatskr-r4a.de]

@ctt Selfhosted SearxNG

[thesunnyone@social.treehouse.systems]

@ctt we are currently testing out one called Qwant

[hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com]

@ctt StartPage from DuckDuckGo whose search result relevance recently fell off a cliff.

[amosmulder@mastodon.social]

@ctt startpage

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@gary @ctt yeah, I've made this my default almost everywhere.

[needlethread@c.im]

@ctt I use searXNG, so a little bit of everything really

[martinlentink@mastodon.social]

@ctt Qwant

[tiggy@mastodonapp.uk]

@ctt

Noaiduckduckgo

[cal@kind.social]

@edhaswell @ctt
Same here, in the same order

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@ctt no-AI Google

[newt@stereophonic.space]

@ctt the internet is made of demons. Why would I want to search anything in it?

[climatejenny@biodiversity.social]

@ctt Yeah, Startpage. Good enough.

[mons1serrata@mastodon.social]

@ctt

Firstly: Perplexity: answer and search machine
Secondly: Google: search machine

[alyn@wandering.shop]

@ctt SearxNG

[ohweh@climatejustice.social]

@ctt@social.lo

DuckDuckGo as voted and sometimes Qwant

[karstan@pdx.social]

@ctt Startpage.com. It sycks just as bad as all the others but jnertia means I haven't moved on

[orthomatrix@social.diachron.net]

@ctt@social.lol Another for Startpage. I used to use Duckduckgo, and I know there's an "AI-free" version of the service, but I'd already been using Startpage by the point I found that out, after dabbling with Ecosia, Qwant.

[iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social]

I wrote my own in #Python.

@ctt

[commonsparrow@mindly.social]

@ctt
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