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I use MullvadVPN and recently started using Mullvads leta search service. It is basically a Front End for Googles Search APi. The result of an external audit was released recently.
The results arengood so far, but I'm not sure if I'll be using it long term.
Presearch. I run a node and get paid for running it. The searches are solid as well.
Gruble.de, eine Searxng Instanz welche von Adminforge betrieben wird
DDG. On a related note, it seems like Google doesn't know me at all, 'cause they always give me wiki results in my local language over the english wiki, although I exclusively click the google search result for English Wikipedia further down...
DuckDuckGo is great, I also switched to Brave Search a couple months ago. The results aren't as good, but I like how it's independently indexed.
Ecosia, but I need to setup a SearXNG instance sometime.
Ecosia on my desktop (plus some experiments with Kagi), DuckDuckGo on my phone (although sometimes Google's search widget for quick questions and conversions).
I use a mix of DuckDuckGo, Bing and links through Bing Chat.
I use both startpage and duckduckgo, I use different browsers for different uses. For example: duckduckgo browser for work/professional use, mull for social media, tor for general browsing, I also recently started using MySudo for the same purposes with it's built in browsers
I mainly use DDG, including bangs to search other sites, but I occasionally still use Google if I'm having trouble finding something.
Generally, DuckDuckGo. If that fails to find what I want, I try Bing and then Google. If I need to do a reverse image search, I use Yandex.
Google for ordinary search. For more challenging qwant, searX.
I've been exclusively using DuckDuckGo until recent controversies, then switched to Metager. It is a privacy-oriented, opensource metasearch engine and they aren't relying on bing/google search results like almost every other search engine.
Results are really good and consistently relevant. But it has some minor annoyances, and recently metager started locking more and more features behind a paywall. I'll keep using it if I won't find better alternative.
I use my own instance of SearXNG, its private, and has good settings. It is a few milliseconds slow with some searches taking 1 second.
Perplexity. It saves me a lot of time.