What search engine y'all are using?
2026-06-07 12:46 UTC
Replies (17)
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@CorvusCornix@piefed.social 2026-06-07 13:27
I know you mentioned having tried it but my experience with DDG has been pretty good and it’s what I use (edit to add that I’m not doubting your experience with it has been poor and this isn’t intended to sound flippant). I see Kagi come up a lot. I don’t trust engines like Kagi not to link my payment data with my search history, personally. They’re a US company, so consider what that means in the current state of the world and privacy. I haven’t deeply investigated the validity of it, but the Kagi CEO allegedly harassed a journalist (minor edit, a blogger) who had a critical take on their service, and supposedly they were founded as - you guessed it - an AI company. And sure, DDG is a US company, too. But they don’t really have anything personally identifying to link my searches back to me. I can accept the ads (though I have uBlock), which are only contextually targeted based on search keywords. I don’t think I’d use their browser or extensions, which would have a much more privileged place in my “tech stack”, but for search it does well enough.
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@okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2026-06-07 12:51
If you aren’t paying for it, you are the product. I pay for Kagi and I am very happy with the results and tools they develop.
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@passenger@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-07 23:04
Currently using www.qwant.com It’s French, they are trying to create an european search index together with german Ecosia.
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@Tinkerer@lemmy.ca 2026-06-07 13:13
I've been uaing my own selfhosted searxng instance. Absolutely love it.
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@ekZepp@lemmy.world 2026-06-07 12:54
Duck Duck works for me. I use the "Disable Ai" addon (libreoffice) to remove most of the useless stuff. I've also tried Ecosia, but the lack of option for chronological results is a big No for me.
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@voxel@feddit.uk 2026-06-07 13:12
Startpage has never been down for me, so idrk what the problem on ur end is.
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@HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2026-06-07 13:34
searXNG with a lot of "backends". I like how it aggregates the results from multiple engines, at least for my searches they turn out consistently more relevant when using any single search.
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@CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 2026-06-07 17:36
I have a Kagi subscription and very happy with it.
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@Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 16:08
Kagi has a free trial. Brave is run by a POS.
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-06-07 17:21
You can try Kagi for free, no CC required.
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@the_abecedarian@piefed.social 2026-06-07 15:00
https://uruky.com/
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@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2026-06-07 19:43
after a similar path that you took, I now use Metager.org, a privacy respecting meta search engine. You pay for your search requests, but it's very, very cheap since it is run by a nonprofit (around a eurocent/search depending on settings). They integrate a lot of smaller search indexes, and you can choose to integrate braves and googles index if you wish. You can blacklist webpages too, and the source is FOSS.
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@bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2026-06-07 17:45
Isn't there a new European thing?
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@tangible@piefed.social 2026-06-07 16:23
I'm using Kagi. I've also tried out Uruky to see if that would be a viable non-US alternative.
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@Innerworld@lemmy.world 2026-06-07 16:22
https://www.searchenginemap.com/
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@mrmisses@lemmy.world 2026-06-07 13:16
Opera (with it's free VPN, I know, I'm the product, but it gets around porn restrictions since I live in a shithole state/country) Firefox for regular browsing
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-06-07 17:23
And even sometimes you don't pay and still aren't the product. See most FOSS stuff. The statement is just false.