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I highly recommend kagi.com.
Its paid search, but it has the best results I've gotten from any search engine without any extra hassle. I pay for the 300 searches for $5/month.
The only complaints people have had about it is the cost, but I'm so happy with it I'll happily jump to the next tier if I blow through these searches.
anecdotally, I find myself searching less and reviewing the results more. It's less cluttered and the results, even 4 or 5 down, feel so much more valid/accurate/useful.
I’m extremely happy with the results on Kagi. Setting up my own ‘page-rank’ with their search customizations is a godsend to get rid of any unwanted sites and promoted the sources I know I’ll come back to.
I’m a bit turned off the pricing though, especially since last month I blew through 1000 searches before the end of last month so currently back to Google, but frustrated by every second search or so.
I ended up paying for the unlimited $25. Figure it is worth supporting the business model and saves me a lot of time and frustration. I really wish it was $10 for unlimited though, but I do use it enough to get my money's worth with thousands of searches per month.
You can also try Mojeek, Whoogle and Brave search for free.
Thanks! Replying so I remember to check them out tomorrow, but I’ll probably eventually relent and get unlimited too. With how much I apparently use it, probably worth it in the end 😅
If you aren't already using bangs that can help to keep the number of Kagi searches down. It doesn't count towards your search count.
So for example I setup some custom bangs, and you can make it so you don't even need to type the "!". Like the letter L will take me to the first result in DDG feeling lucky. I could type "l verizon" and it goes directly to Verizon's website without using a search.
I also did that with a bunch of other sites, so I can search Wikipedia with w, imdb with imd, wolfram alpha with wa, etc.
This is my second month with them, but I have managed to stay under the 300 so far. Admittedly, I dont have it on my phone where I do quite a few searches throughout the day--but those searches are usually not-important or I want them to be tied into the google services (like maps). I should set it up though to get a true count of my web searches.
But I 100% find myself going to kagi for anything I really want an answer to. I can't think of a single time where I've had to fall back to google or bing (which I found myself doing all the time with duckduckgo and ecosia). Like I said, if I end up needing to spend $10+/month I'd gladly do it. I get more value out of kagi than I do half of the services I play for.
like everything is, you just weren't paying with money
How does it compare to duckduckgo?
I've been playing around with it as well.