Asklemmy

DuckDuckGo. I can't live without !bangs.

Kagi. Yes, it's paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:

• Actual privacy
• No BS like with DDG
• AI features (like a "quick answer" feature that's really useful)
• Has its own index along with others
• Search results are great, probably better than DDG's
• "Lenses" (basically narrow results by a set of sites)
• Devs are pretty cool

DuckDuckGo, but I've been testing Qwant (also privacy focused) lately as well.

SearX-ng

Duck duck go first, and if results are shit, I default back to google

Startpage. It uses Googles results, but you will not get tracked that much

Duckduckgo for the most part, especially if I already know where I want to get to. Google as a backup like others are saying.

SearX-NG, coming off DuckDuckGo it wasn't a major change in the internal structure (the search gets relayed over to a larger search engine), but there's no one company behind it like DDG. They've been working together with Microsoft on some rather sketchy things.

I would still love to self-host something decent (that doesn't relay over to a company), but nothing like that exists as far as I know.

DuckDuckGo

I also use Firefox search bookmarks for searching specific sites.

Search Bookmark: You prepare the URL with a %s placeholder and give the bookmark a tag, and you can type tag searchterm and it'll open it.

I'm using it for opening word definitions, word translations, searching reference documentation, searching specific platforms/websites/media types, etc.

Duck Duck Go. It just works for me. I've never had a problem with it's results.

I've been using SearXNG. It is a fork of SearX, a popular open source metasearch search engine. Basically SearX allows you to use multiple search engines for a search, and only the results are there, no ads. SearXNG changes the UI to be better, adds some other engines for a variety of things to search, like images. Currently I'm using ericafteric.top as my instance; it is the fastest US instance with search suggestions support since I can't selfhost.

I hate adds. I was using Neeva. Just switched to Kagi. After nearly 3 weeks, it looks like 300 searches/month will work for me. So $5 a month is fine.

Just Google, unless I'm looking to pirate something. Then I use Yandex.

Most small search engines use bing results which are a hit or miss compared to Google.

Startpage is the only privacy focused one I found that uses Google search results. The UI is fine for the most part, except the image search maybe.

Edit: typo

DDG first, Google if that fails and I think the query should have gotten good results, Bing Chat if I'm still really not sure about a topic or if I want some of its summarization (or I'm just feeling lazy).

DuckDuckGo

duckduckgo primarily, but have been starting to dabble with a self hosted Whoogle.

DuckDuckGo, mainly cause I have used it for years, instances of searxng are too spotty for me for day to day use, and I am too lazy to host my own instance.

DuckDuckGo. I wanted something privacy-respecting, but Startpage was blocked in my country and SearX had problems with my language. Anyway I've heard an advertising company bought Starpage so I wont use it. Also bang shortcuts are great!

(Also is it just me or DDG doesn't approve new bangs now?)

Ecosia on my tablet because of nice integrated browser and DuckDuck+Firefox on the PC

Am also checking out Brave on PC at the moment

Bing because I'm getting paid for it

Another DuckDuckGo user here. I really like it but wish I could use boolean with it.

brave search on desktop, DDG on mobile.

Duckduckgo, works like I want it to and it's not Google. Never had a problem with its search results either. Tried several others as well including searx and ecosia but I found their image search inferior to ddg's.

DDG, it works well enough for me, and not that I got used to bangs I cannot let go of them

I use DuckDuckGo

I use Brave Search. wAs going to switch to Neeva but they are shutting down now.