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.

  • @Dehydrated
    10•11 months ago

    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 https://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: https://mastodon.social/@StartpageSearch

      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: https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek

    • 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.