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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[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Been using Duckduckgo, it's ok. Like the early days of Google.

Now I just have to finish de-Googling email and file storage.

[-] cosmos8188@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

How's the progress going with degoogling?

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So-so, I'm trying to evaluate Proton before fully leaving Google. Google Maps will be tough to leave, and stuff like Android Auto is nice.

[-] cosmos8188@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

I can recommend startmail for emails, I use it alongside the proton stack. But I do have to agree google maps is the toughest to leave - OSM derivatives just dont give that much flexibility or a great search tool.

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