I’ll go first. I’ve used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I’m currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg’s but at least I’m planting trees, so there’s that.
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duckduckgo primarily, but have been starting to dabble with a self hosted Whoogle.
Another DuckDuckGo user here. I really like it but wish I could use boolean with it.
You can, it just works a bit differently than google if that is what you’re used to. It doesn’t outright exclude results with -, just de-emphasizes it in the results, of course with how tailored many web pages are to gaming search algorithms that doesn’t do much. If you want to outright eliminate certain websites from the search you can do that with -site:siteyouwantgone.here
Startpage. It uses Googles results, but you will not get tracked that much
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SearX-NG, coming off DuckDuckGo it wasn’t a major change in the internal structure (the search gets relayed over to a larger search engine), but there’s no one company behind it like DDG. They’ve been working together with Microsoft on some rather sketchy things.
I would still love to self-host something decent (that doesn’t relay over to a company), but nothing like that exists as far as I know.
From what i know the exemption thing was only in the app and has been removed by now and so far the alternatives are… Not very Suitable for everyday use, at least for me.
I’ve heard similar things several times, so I’ve been staying away. I should move more of my daily tasks to different self-hosted or non-corporate services.
Duckduckgo, works like I want it to and it’s not Google. Never had a problem with its search results either. Tried several others as well including searx and ecosia but I found their image search inferior to ddg’s.
Kagi is better though. I was using ddg for a long time but had to use Google now and then to get good results.
DDG first, Google if that fails and I think the query should have gotten good results, Bing Chat if I’m still really not sure about a topic or if I want some of its summarization (or I’m just feeling lazy).
Kagi. Yes, it’s paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:
- Actual privacy
- No BS like with DDG
- AI features (like a “quick answer” feature that’s really useful)
- Has its own index along with others
- Search results are great, probably better than DDG’s
- “Lenses” (basically narrow results by a set of sites)
- Devs are pretty cool
I’ve been using Kagi for a few months now and I love it. When I think about how much of my life revolves around accurate information, the price is negligible.
I was using DuckDuckGo and it was giving me pretty ‘eh’ results, only marginally better than google on the surface level, but both weren’t really usable for deep older searches. (and ddg starting to add sus ads/promoted) Brave is better, but Kagi has been fantastic when I’ve really needed to find something specific, technical, or very old. I think the best way to come about the pricing structure and limited search results is that I think it’s not supposed to be your only search engine from then on. There are times when you need what kagi gives in terms of producing quality and relevant results, and times you just wanna search “[company name] reviews/is a scam?” that using kagi wouldn’t serve you better than anything else, so it’s more of a tool that you bring out when you aren’t finding what you need with free search engines. On it’s own page it doesn’t try and oversell you on it, they admit that the majority of people don’t need paid search most of the time.
I haven’t approached if it’s an early netflix thing where you could split the bill with others for one login/family plan, that might make it more feasible.
Love Kagi. I switched and never had any reason to use Google again. Its that good.
Kagi. Yes, it’s paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:
Huh. I hadn’t heard of this one before, but I think I’m going to have to try it out.
I didn’t know it was privacy focused or that they were building their own index, that’s really cool. Do you think it’s worth the money?
It’s only a few bucks a month. I think so.
The only thing I don’t like is needing to be logged in to search. That always feels like a huge invasion of privacy. The at least claim that they don’t log search contents though
Bit biased cause I’ve had it for a while and have a ‘legacy plan’. But even without that, absolutely.
I want to give it a try but it’s hard to justify the cost with limited searches. I don’t want to have to keep track of how many times I’ve searched or second guess if I “really need to search for that”.
For some reason the thought of a paid search engine has never even crossed by mind before. I’ve been using DDG but this has peaked my curiosity. Thank you.
Edit: The pricing is… very… meh.
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So you’re basically paying for a proxy for Google and Bing search?
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It’s so worth it.
It is very meh. But I think if you’re able to, it’s well worth the price. Just don’t get the standard plan. That one is god awful.
Kagi is absolutely wonderful. Highly recommend giving it ago. Gives me better results than google while having a fair privacy policy
Ecosia on desktop, DuckDuckGo on mobile.
I use Brave Search. wAs going to switch to Neeva but they are shutting down now.
DuckDuckGo, but I’ve been testing Qwant (also privacy focused) lately as well.
I use Bing just because it was immediately available when I decided I didn’t want to use Google anymore.
Duckduckgo for the most part, especially if I already know where I want to get to. Google as a backup like others are saying.
DuckDuckGo. I can’t live without !bangs.
Do you mean like !google or !amazon ? I use ddg. Just making sure I know what you mean
yup. or rather their short form, !g and !a in your example, because no one’s got time to type out the entire names (:
brave search on desktop, DDG on mobile.
