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
Altavista
Hotbot
Dogpile
AskJeeves should be rebooted with a LLM
Magellan
I’m using Qwant. Works better for me than DuckDuckGo.
Another Qwant person! I’m enjoying it.
My own self-hosted SearXNG.
Where, sadly, „search engine“ essentially means „Bing frontend“ these days …
People here need to try Qwant. It’s refreshing how clean it is and I think the search results are pretty good
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.
Ecosia is fine. All of them seem to be trash these days so might as well go with the quirky one.
Ecosia. I don’t like their links to Microsoft but I think the environment is more important than anything these days.
DDG works just fine for my purposes.
I’ve been using kagi the past few months
Duckduckgo. Just moved to it within the year, and it’s been fine for my basic searches.
I’m using the French search engine Qwant a lot. It’s just straightforward and I can muddle through enough French to navigate. I like DDG but the results are middling at best.
If you’re using Qwant in French, you must have your location set to France. Because I use it from the US all the time and it’s all in English