I live in a country which uses a language I don’t speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).
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Metasearch engines are the way to go, I wish more people hosted their instances so folks wouldn’t run into rate limits so often
Whoa, this is the first time I’ve heard of a metasearch engine or SearXNG, this is incredible. I’ve been a DDG user for a while but I might have to switch…
woah nice!
thanks for the recommendation, will need to try a self hosted setup
Searx. https://xo.wtf
I also use Searx but to be honest I end up using other search engines for 99% of my queries.
I use searx for everything except conversions. For example “!ddg 0.35xmr in usd”
Also a searx user. I started recently and the ability to.choose the engines for the various categories is something I never thought of. The science category, for example, is extremely nice.
What’s this?
Hosting my own Whoogle and LibreX, they work decently well for my purpose.
Been very happy with DuckDuckGo for a while now.
I started using Kagi recently and it’s fantastic. The results have been great, it’s pretty customisable and it uses all the same ! bangs as DuckDuckGo. Don’t feel like I have to use Google at all anymore (which wasn’t the case when I used DDG as my go-to). Plus, since it’s a paid service, there are no ads and no guff.
Like several others, self hosted searxng instance. Suits me perfectly
Duckduckgo by default, adding !g bang syntax to use google if DDG isn’t helping.
Surprising no one has said Metager yet, very privacy focused search engine, no hassle.
Brave. It’s interesting getting completely different results than from any of the big players. And the results from Brave are often better.
I use the Brave browser on my phone. The searches are good, but I mainly like that I can watch YouTube without adds, and make the video windowed and even turn off the phone screen while it plays.
I use Duckkduckgo, I’d like to use Kagi though, From my short experience, the results were excellent and I’d like to curate the websites I like and don’t more as I think that would improve things the results even more.
Running my own SearX instance, fetching from multiple different sites.
I’ll be that weird guy using Bing! Ive signed up for Bing Rewards so I at least get some payment for the data they’re collecting. Also the Bing ChatGPT feature is interesting and useful at times.
I use it too for the rewards. I had the exact same thought as you–at least they pay me for collecting data.
I rotate between a handful of public SearX/SearXNG instances. I used to use Duckduckgo but after learning about the deal they had with Microsoft I completely stopped trusting them.
I use kagi. It’s pretty nice, though it’s not free.
Third for Kagi, only been using it for a couple of months and I’ve not come across anything that it hasn’t found, or been unhappy with the results it shows.
I’ve been using Kagi for the last year, and when that’s not available, duck duck go or starpage. Kagi is excellent. yes its paid, but imo worth the cost.
By when kagi is not available, do you mean it goes down or you run into quota limits? I’ve been thinking of giving it a go.
Second this – Kagi has been excellent for me
