I just found this blog post, it pretty much reviews all available search engines: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
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Just use SearXng, it's the best choice because it's using google and bing datas. Go to SearX.space
Kagi is pretty good, even if it is on the expensive side. The results are pretty good, and there are many useful features. The results are lacking for more local or if you speak multiple languages and you wish to have local results, you will need to set it manually to your area.
I am using kagi and like it so far
I am also using Kagi. It's a paid service but I like their philosophy so I'm happy to pay.
DDG is my primary engine, but I've had good results with Brave Search too.
I've heard good things about Qwant, but unfortunately it requires you to turn ad block off, so no go for me on that one.
I use SearXNG. It's been treating me very well and I've only had to use Google to get a certain result 1 time in the past 6 months.
My searxng instance gives me Google results. Maybe it misses the point but it's nice.
You can turn it off in the settings. Or, just use a VPN or SOCKS5 proxy. with it and you'd be good, while still having the benefits of Google's engine.
Sorry, i meant that i like the Google results, and i turned them on Even if it misses the point of using an alternative because it's just better than Google alone.
With a browser addon LibRedirect you can redirect all kind of sites to their privacy friendly alternatives. Google have 5 alternative backends (searx, searxng, whoogle, librey, 4get).
Alternatively you could try some of the new AI engines like perplexity.ai , but they will likely soon track you as much as google..
Thanks, it looks really useful
I prefere to use metasearch engines that get results from other engines, i used to use SearXNG but currently im using 4get you can host your own instance or use a public one.
I tried them and it gives me a captcha every single time. I have no idea what a 'fumo plushie' is so picking four of them to get my results makes it a non starter
You probably had to click on the animal which has no fur. For example click on the one turtle image as opposed to the five cow images.
Check the instances, some of them don't have captcha
If you by any chance use mullvad, you could try Leta.
PS. It's proxied google results.
Never heard of Greppr, (t y) did a test search with best private search engine showing this at hit number 10 : https://lemmy.ml/comment/121842 which echoes your comment about a blog post in this thread :-)
i use searx
Search.brave.com
Ddg is just bing, so its trash