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I don't understand why lots of you answer with chatGPT. It's not a search engine! And you shouldn't use it like a search engine.

I use mostly either ddg or brave search. I miss the google of pre 2010, when the majority of its results were good.

I also use Yandex whenever I'm looking for pirate stuff, the only engine that doesn't block those kinds of results.

I've been using DuckDuckGo since, at least 2010, maybe earlier. If its results aren't up to snuff, I'm not aware of that because they're what I'm used to. I fall through to Google ( !g) if I think there might be more out there. The bang commands are so good. I use DDG as my main search in my search bar and then I can use the bang commands to get to whatever specialized search I want from there. It's a meta-search-engine.

Mostly duck duck go.

I run my own searx instance

Kagi. Very happy with it. Best $5 it recently invested. Gives me much better results than Google and all the others.

Self-hosted Searxng. It's shared to multiple people which kills a lot of the usefulness in Google or others trying to track my instance.

I've been using DuckDuckGo as my main search engine for the past couple of years. I occasionally fall back to Google.

https://www.marginalia.nu/

Currently down for updates, but does a great job of avoiding SEO abuse/blog spam/etc. Takes you back to the earlier days of the internet when it felt like there were more forums/individual sites/etc. They’re still out there, just hidden under all the junk.

DuckDuckGo. Google if DDG isn't cutting it.

Duck Duck Go is the only search engine I use. Switched away from Google for privacy reasons and haven't missed it a bit.

@SemioticStandard Kagi. I used DDG for a long time, and Kagi is strictly better. Specifically, it’s very snappy and I trust the privacy guarantees even more since I’m a paying customer.

DuckDuckGo for general searches
Google for image searches
Google maps for local businesses (including their website)
BingGPT for simple research answers (e.g. What door closers will fit on a Norton 1600 bolt pattern?)

Qwant (but I hate all search engines nowadays)

I've been using Ecosia for a while and liking it. I think the results are usually better than Google and the image search is way more useful, still gives you direct links to the image files. Though most importantly I like planting trees.

DuckDuckGo, but mostly because of the !bangs. I do 90% of my searches through StartPage (!s), and the rest directly on a few websites (Wikipedia, YouTube, Arch wiki...).

I use DuckDuckGo. Including using their browser on iOS and windows.

I use my selfhosted Whoogle instance for search

i use brave search (even if i'm on firefox), it gives good results while having an independent index

I exclusively use AltaVista.

Duck Duck Go too

I'm still looking for a search engine that doesn't use data from my IP address to provide targeted results. In the meantime, I've gone back and forth between using SearXNG instances and using Startpage, but there's really not a decent search engine in existence, from what I can tell.

DDG for everyday usage. Sometimes I try searching the same things on google just to compare results. I've tried searxng instances on and off in the past but its rarely been reliable for me and self hosting isn't really an option for me.

duck duck go on firefox.

Google, duck duck go when I don't want to see ads for days based on what I'm searching, Bing and Perplexity when I want to avoid doing a series of searches to learn something.

Thanks for making me aware of Kagi, I've been trialing it and getting decent results is a breath of fresh air in a world of blogspam and LLM garbage.

DuckDuckGo for me personally.

I am a long time DuckDuckGo user. I came for privacy and stayed because of the features.

I use DuckDuckGo on my personal stuff, but my office has the work browser set to Google and Bing still.

Currently DuckDuckGo, but I will switch to SearXNG because of this.

Google and ChatGPT, I tried DDG several years ago, but the results were not good, might try it again

I use SearXNG and Ecosia.