And eat stones. A healthy diet should contain at least one small rock a day.

Ai, broooo! I’m warm

I think Mojeek is the only independent https://www.mojeek.com/

searXNG is a neat meta search engine and uses multiple sources

There’s nothing quite perfect, so I still use ddg the most often. They do pull in most of their results from bing, but they also have their own crawler and use a bunch of other search engines as sources. At least they only send the search query to microsoft, so it’s better for privacy than searching directly on google or bing.

SearXNG is an open source meta search engine that compiles results from other search engines.

Marginalia and Clew are a couple of open source search engines that focus on only indexing smaller, independent, or non-commercial sites.

A lot of sites have their own search engines built in, so I’ll often search directly on sites like Wikipedia or Lemmy.

There’s a good overview of various search engines in this blog post.

Google results for me have been shittier and shittier over time.

I use duckduckgo mostly now. if you set your localization right it feels like you can actually find stuff again.

Ecosia seems to be not bad choice

Been using Kagi for about almost a year now. It is a paid search engine. Which might sound weird but if you are doing research or any job that relies on access to information, I’d say it’s worth the investment.