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

[bit101@mstdn.social]

@ctt I'm evaluating start page. it's ok. I did ddg for a couple years, but the quality of results was letting me down.

[timitii@mementomori.social]

@ctt eu.startpage.com

[wortezimmer@ruhr.social]

@CppGuy @cris @ctt
Startpage as well.

[ppatel@mstdn.social]

@ctt Startpage.com though it may change after today since they've abandoned using headings to mark search results.

[petebleackley@wandering.shop]

@ctt Mojeek. UK based, independent (own index and crawler) @Mojeek

[robcornelius@climatejustice.social]

@ctt

https://udm14.com/

Google from 1997. No ads, no fucking AI shite.

No one knows why Google has allowed to exist. My guess its a testing thing that made it to production.

[ellierenee@mastodon.social]

I use OmniSearch, it's a metasearch engine, selfhosted.

@ctt

[lironah@mstdn.games]

@ctt Startpage

[b30@social.lol]

@ctt #degoog … selfhosted on a Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/degoog-org/degoog

[gwync@mastodon.coffee]

@ctt qwant.com

[cdn@mastodon.uno]

@ctt https://noai.duckduckgo.com

[zicoxy3@tkz.one]

@ctt SearXNG autohosted

[colettediskette@retro.pizza]

@ctt Local SearXNG instance.

[fedihacker@masto.es]

@ctt Ecoasia or Ecosia?

[lukask@masto.ai]

@ctt startpage

[sanzky@masto.es]

@ctt used DDG for years but recently Ove moved to qwant

[onanist@activitypub.ro]

@ctt my own

[chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net]

@ctt DDG if my searxng instance is broken (which happens every time i upgrade )

[jstark@tweesecake.social]

@ppatel @ctt kagi

[ppatel@mstdn.social]

@jstark Lot of people are using it. I think I'm not interested in yet another subscription. @ctt