For work I still use Google tbh. It's still really good for technical answers
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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I switched to Brave Search after watching Techlore's video about it.
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not duckduckgo from what i remember there was something with data and microsoft but you probably research thag before you trust me bcs i dont remember all of it. searchng is good, selfhosted or public instances. good luck
I'm probably going to get down-voted for saying this but my primary search engine is Bing because of the rewards thing but I often use Brave's search engine for more private searches.
I would also consider looking into either Ecosia or OceanHero. Someone has already mentioned Ecosia but OceanHero does something similar but for cleaning oceans.
I personally use Brave for most of my search aueries and don't see anything wrong with it. If I can't find something with it (which is rare these days), then I use SearXNG to get Google results proxied.
Just use what you like and don't worry so much about what other people approve of. I personally don't like Firefox, despite everyone singing it's praises. I know it's more efficient on RAM, but RAM is cheap and I have more than enough.