SearXNG - it’s a meta-engine that serves results from a combination of other ones (you can set up which ones you want to use). I like it a lot. Here’s a list of public instances: https://searx.space/
I host my own instance for that added oomph.
I just started using this one and it is crazy how different the experience is
Right? So much better it’s not even funny. It was recommended to me here on Lemmy a while ago, and I couldn’t be happier. Sometimes instances get clogged or go down, but it still beats any other search I tried by a mile.
Agreed
Kagi
They’re all crap because they all track you, but I stick with DuckDuckGo because I find their lies about not tracking me to be comforting enough
Yeah wait, how do they make money
Mostly using DDG now for sometime. Once in a while need to use Google.
I’ve found for the last 3-4 years I haven’t had to fall back to Google. DDG results have been good enough I can use it full time.
In my case I’ve found the need to use Google for local searches, and certain very specific searches (one example is journal impact factors). In a lot of other cases, DDG has actually given me better results - I was getting fed up with some of the crappy results I was getting using Google, which prompted me to try out and eventually shift to DDG.
My own self-hosted SearXNG.
How does that work, does it go out and start indexing the internet for you?
It’s a meta search engine. It queries other search engines and compiles you results.
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There is probably a neat wget oneliner that could crawl everything on the open web. The real challenge is how to index all the information. That might be a neat Perl oneliner.
Altavista
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Another Qwant person! I’m enjoying it.
People here need to try Qwant. It’s refreshing how clean it is and I think the search results are pretty good
Qwant isn’t available in a lot of countries though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant
Where, sadly, „search engine“ essentially means „Bing frontend“ these days …
DDG, but ever so often I have to use bangs to Google or some dedicated sites. Been trying out my own instance of the SearchX meta search engine but honestly it’s not that much of a difference except it lags. I’ve been using ChatGPT way more for direct questions instead of using search words and sifting through the results, with the risk of hallucination so still need to double check on important stuff. Copilot sort of works but I don’t know why I’m not comfortable with it. Too bad Gemeni seems to be a dud so far. I’d love to see a FOSS language model that can be tweaked for personal interests and custom commands for external APIs and that gives references to the answers.
DDG for everyday browsing and Kagi’s free trial for more “difficult” searches.
I’m not sure how many Kagi searches I have left but I’m most likely buying the unlimited plan when I run out.
DDG for me, but mostly I use !wi and !gh. Pretty rare to do a rawdog search
I just cancelled Kagi. It’s good but not really good enough to justify the cost, plus stuff detailed here https://www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/
I gave yandex a quick run, it’s actually very good, functionally, but a privacy nightmare.
Currently trying out Mojeek, one of the few outside the big three to have it’s own index. Pretty good - not all the conveniences of the bigger ones but maybe good enough most of the time
I’m a Kagi user … I’ve also previously responded to the referenced post on Kagi.
https://alexandrite.app/social.packetloss.gg/comment/1704525
Paid, but less crap.
