What search engine do you use? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for something that just gives good results with their own engine, not proxying google or yahoo, without LLMs being involved.

I've used startpage and have my own searxng instance self hosted. But both use mostly google results with just a nicer frontend.

I was looking Kagi as an alternative. But they seemed to move to become another AI company, bundling their subscription to the search engine with a subscription to an LLM, so I'm not paying for that.

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[-] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I've been using Qwant for about a year now, they and Ecosia built their own EU based index a while ago. I've been pretty happy with it

They did introduce an AI overview thing a few months back, but it can be permanently turned off with two clicks

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