What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?

I’m still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don’t trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What’s the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?

Edit: I meant to also express my frustration that most browsers do not let you select a “default search engine” that can be used in the address bar aside from 3-5 pre-chosen engines. Seems like 2023 we should be able to customize that to our own liking.

Edit 2: Thanks for the recommendation of Kagi. I’m going to roll with it for a while. I see they have an extension for Safari that allows them to hijack the address bar, which is just what I needed.

EmasXP,

Been using Qwant for maybe a year or so. Recently found Swisscows too. I am not sure if Qwant uses their own index. I remember that they said that they were to create their own index, but the results looks suspiciously similar to Bing. Swisscows for sure runs their own index, and I find the results to be rather good

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

if nothing else qwant has a good map, based on openstreetmap but with a vector renderer and with tripadvisor integration so it’s really easy to find restaurants

bloopernova,
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

Kagi

It’s a paid subscription but it’s better than Google, I’ve found.

kagi.com

Dehydrated,

Meta search engines:

  • SearX

    Open source, self hostable meta search engine.

  • SearXNG

    Better version of SearX. A list of SearX and SearXNG instances is available at searx.space

Also meta search engines, but different:

  • DuckDuckGo

    It’s very privacy friendly, but it gets all the search results from Microsoft’s Bing.

  • Startpage

    Basically the same thing but it uses Google results. They are really focused on privacy too, they even are on Mastodon: mastodon.social/

    They’re based in the EU (Netherlands) so they are also subject to the GDPR.

Independent:

  • Brave Search

    They recently stopped using Google and Bing and created their own search index. It appears to be privacy friendly, but the company behind Brave is not ideal.

  • Mojeek

    A small privacy focused search engine, that uses its own index. They’re also on Mastodon: mastodon.social/

  • Kagi

    I’ve seen many many people recommend it, but I have never really used it myself. It’s not free, they charge $5/month for 300 searches and $10 for unlimited searches.

HansSlonzok,

qwant.com

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

qwant also has their own really nice map! maps.qwant.com

it’s properly open source, based on openstreetmap, and integrates tripadvisor so it’s great for finding restaurants.

Vilian,

ecosia, like knowing that my searchs are helping the world a little

ichbinjasokreativ,

Brave search is also really good now

cyberpunk007,

Brave statement

ichbinjasokreativ,

Ican only speak of my own experience. Finding what I’m looking for and not having to deal with the insane amount of ads on google and the likes is worth it to me to make a recommendation.

kzhe,

People aren’t downgotinf because you’re right or wrong, but because Brave is homophobic.

kzhe,

brave is pretty widely disliked by people (including me) for it’s CEO’s homophobia. That’s probably why you’re being down voted.

joel_feila,
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You want a free search, Brave. Don’t like brave, then qwant. I use Kagi. It costs money but it is great.

scottmeme, (edited )

I run a whoogle instance personally

Lmaydev,

Of what?

scottmeme,

Of shit auto correct, whoogle, open source privacy frontend for google

girl,

How is an instance a search engine?

brenno, (edited )

Another option is SearXNG. It’s meta search engine, which means that it aggregates other search engines like Google and Bing but without tracking or logging, because your searches are proxied using a public instance, that will mix your search with the ones from other people.

And about default search engine, don’t know what you’re talking about, both chrome and Firefox allows this, in mobile and desktop.

searx.space

jvrava9,
@jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

SearXNG

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

I use stratpage. I find it reliable

SplashJackson,

I like AskJeeves but a case can be made for WebCrawler

Wahots,
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I use a mix of all 3 search engines on firefox

lseif,

startpage is alright if u want a quick alternative.

but definitely look into searx. it can be annoying to choose an instance (unless you self host!), but it can be a lot more customizable and decentralized

garibaldi_biscuit,

What about metasearch engines/ search aggregators?

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