Hi! I’m trying to find a Google alternative, tried duck duck go but found it very lacking, both in results and interface (not showing the date on the links, for example, that’s useful). Obviously don’t wanna go the bing route. Any recommendations? Also, sorry if this is not the right place to ask, I didn’t know where! Thanks!
I’ve been using Duckduckgo for a while now, really like the option of using bangs to quickly search on other platforms like Maps, Google News, YouTube, etc.
https://www.startpage.com/ it’s pretty much google search without tracking
Though it is now owned by an advertising company so caution is advised.
Kagi! It costs money, but it’s worth it. I just heard about it here a few days ago on a similar post and I signed up. So long corporate tracking and advertising!
Like others have said SearXNG if you like to tinker a bit, especially with self hosting. Otherwise, use Brave search if you’re comfortable with Brave or something like Whoogle, a search engine using Google without ads or tracking.
If you live in Europe, https://qwant.com is your friend, with their own search indexer.
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Presearch is an ok tool. Haven’t heard much of it out there, so it’d be interesting to hear others’ takes.
just don’t pay attention to the crypto stuff, but otherwise it’s alright. it gets its results from other search engines
Startpage.com does the job for me
I use that as well. It’s great because google still give the best results and startpage (mostly) just proxies the requests to google.
That’s btw. the way most other alternative search engines work as well. E.g. ecosia is mostly bing.
In any case, I do trust startpage over duckduckgo, because they’re (more or less) European. I.e. would get into a lot more trouble when spying illegally.
Thank you all for the great suggestions! I was like… they are going to send me to duck duck go and call it a day! But there are plenty of engines to try! Thanks!
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