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Surprising no one has said Metager yet, very privacy focused search engine, no hassle.

I use both startpage and duckduckgo, I use different browsers for different uses. For example: duckduckgo browser for work/professional use, mull for social media, tor for general browsing, I also recently started using MySudo for the same purposes with it's built in browsers

Searx. https://xo.wtf

Gruble.de, eine Searxng Instanz welche von Adminforge betrieben wird

Like several others, self hosted searxng instance. Suits me perfectly

I just run a searxng instance for myself. Fetches from multiple sources.

I've heard good things about kagi, but it does require paying for (though you can try out a free tier to see if it'll work for you)

I'm still sticking with google. I check duckduckgo occasionally but always find it to be subpar.

I've ditched Google. I use Qwant for searching. It's about the same as Google in terms of results, I think.

I use duckduckgo. One thing I notice about the google language is that my phone has french as the os language so google will be in french but then I go to a computer that has english as it's language, sign in and google will be in french (even though my account is set to english). So check your OS and browser language settings on all devices you signed in on.

Ecosia on my desktop (plus some experiments with Kagi), DuckDuckGo on my phone (although sometimes Google's search widget for quick questions and conversions).

Big fan of Kagi, though Bing chat is unironically very good for most of my needs.

Google has been worse than Bing for most of the last two years, but Kagi was working better for me than either for the last year. Bing chat is a whole different animal, though.

I hop between Brave search, Startpage and DuckDuckGo depending on the results I get.

I use my own instance of SearXNG, its private, and has good settings. It is a few milliseconds slow with some searches taking 1 second.

Try using: https://www.google.com/webhp?pws=0&gl=us&gws_rd=cr

Perplexity. It saves me a lot of time.

DDG. On a related note, it seems like Google doesn't know me at all, 'cause they always give me wiki results in my local language over the english wiki, although I exclusively click the google search result for English Wikipedia further down...

As much as I dislike it, mainly Google still. Sometimes Bing for the AI help. Brave Search is also really good and the only new search engine I can see surpassing Google some day.

Google for ordinary search. For more challenging qwant, searX.

I've been exclusively using DuckDuckGo until recent controversies, then switched to Metager. It is a privacy-oriented, opensource metasearch engine and they aren't relying on bing/google search results like almost every other search engine.

Results are really good and consistently relevant. But it has some minor annoyances, and recently metager started locking more and more features behind a paywall. I'll keep using it if I won't find better alternative.