cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4448974
I’ve recently started using a self hosted SearXNG instance but I’m still using the search engines enabled by default (google, duckduckgo and qwant). What search engines do you have enabled or which ones do you feel you’ve gotten the best results with?
I used to use SearXNG until I discovered 4get
I’ve been using kagi for the last few months, I like it but due to the pricing it’s changes how I use search.
I use 4get.ca
I really like Brave search
Doesn’t work reliably in SearXNG unfortunately
Works fine on it’s own
I know, I used it before but I wanted to try out SearXNG and it has some features I really like that other search engines don’t have
Ecosia!
Google for most things.
Bing in an incognito window for weird porn.
Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less “sponsored” results, …
DDG doesn’t like to exclude words from your searches though. It lets you exclude sites using the -site: parameter, but won’t exclude individual words. And it constantly gives me search results that don’t include the words that I’m searching for.
Brave search, it has its own index. I think it’s the only one to do that in the privacy space?
Brave? Isn’t that the crypto-scam browser? Same people?
They fixed those, I haven’t seen anything from them recently and the crypto stuff is optional anyway.
DuckDuckGo Lite. I get quick, no distractions search results.
