Technology

https://search.brave.com/ really good

I tried you.com for a long period of time. It has some nice ways to present content but overall I too often did not find what I was looking for so I switched back to startpage.com as unpersonalized version of Google.

I run my own SearXNG instance, which is a metasearch engine that shows results from a bunch of other search engines. I find it incredibly useful! It's very customizable as well

Searxng (searx.be) / startpage

I use one of the searxng instances or startpage.com

Startpage is great and uses g00g's search index. DuckDuckGo used to be my goto, but then they switched to using Microsoft Bing's search index.

Duckduckgo.com. This is the way.

I use DDG pretty exclusively. I've never had issues with it, I set it as default and didn't think about it after that

I use DDG and im pretty happy with it. I now pretty much only use google if i need to find working hours and location of a store on google maps, as DDG doesnt have that information as obviously available

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.

Ddg, brave and startpage

I use ddg most of the time. It fits all my needs. Sometimes when it comes to very niche things or complicated things I use startpage or brave.

startpage

Hosting my own Whoogle and LibreX, they work decently well for my purpose.

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

I changed to Metager https://metager.org/ … it’s the only one I’ve found that still respects yer "string search"

I decided to try to commit to Brave since it's the sole one to use open maps while DDG uses Apple.

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

I use startpage, I usually prefer it's results to ddg

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)

Brave Search on all my personal devices, even though I'm getting worse results than up to a few months ago, so as much as it pains to admit it I sometimes use Google as a fallback (and the last time I actually used Google as my main search engine was back in 2012!). I probably should use metasearch engines more, though, but have been procrastinating learning how to effectively use them for a while now.

Aside from that, I have about a dozen sites saved with search keywords on Firefox (four of them are Wikipedia in different languages, though) that I use all the time.