Been using duckduckgo for years and generally gets the job done. If I want more local specific results then I'll just add !g to my search which'll do a Google search

Kagi is good.

I know DuckDuckGo has its own issues, but surely it’s better than Google at least?

duckduckgo is the most useful and straightforward to use, brave isn't bad either although it struggles with non english searches from my experience. searx is powerful but a bit overkill and it is not the most intuitive

SearXNG is the king

DuckDuckGo works in 98% of the time for me. If I can't find something on DDG, I'll switch to Google. But that's only rarely needed.

DuckDuckGo

I like the paulgo.io searxng instance for most queries its fine. As for truly novel search engines that dont just scrape google, theres search.marginalia.nu and yacy.net

searx.be is my favorite by far. You can get results from DDG, Brave, Startpage, etc. all in one place and it's self-hostable

Great discussion.

Because it's happened gradually I've just gotten used to Google being less and less useful.

It's good to try something else.

This thread made me try Perplexity, Kagi and SearXNG. I'll give them all a run over the next week or so and see how they go.

eh, i've been doing a mix of duckduckgo or brave's search engine. tbh it works for basic things but i've yet to find a better search engine for more niche or specific queries

Kagi

I use Bing for Microsoft Rewards. You can get the equivalent of $10 a month in gift cards for your searches.

I use Yandex when I suspect Google isn’t telling me everything.

I like Ecosia.

It does run on Bing, but I like seeing the lil tree planting counter (⁠•⁠‿⁠•⁠)

I miss the days of Alta Vista that could do searches with Boolean logic. DuckDuckGo is probably the most popular alternative.

swurl.com is a fun take on search aggregators

Try Presearch.

i always hear duckduck in these threads. though im still trapped in google land.