I want to like SearX, but I just haven't gotten any great results from it so far, and I'm not really impressed by anything that just spits out Bing results (looking at you DDG).
you.com gives excellent results, but I'm not sure how much I should be trusting them.
Brave search has gotten MUCH better and I use that pretty on the daily now.
I keep seeing good things about Kagi from our Lemmy friends here, thinking I should give that a shot
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Today I tried Googling something about following kbin magazines on lemmy and got 0 relevant results on the first page. Then I entered the same search on DuckDuckGo and the first few results were all relevant to my search. Finally I decided to make the permanent switch to DuckDuckGo. Google has been undergoing enshitification for a long time now. Ever since I started needing to include Reddit at the end of all my searches. Since I no longer want to include Reddit in my searches, I need to find a better search engine in general and hopefully DDG can be that.
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actually google.
all other search engines give worse results, buggy (I'm looking at you, searx; it fails very frequently), or just have worse ui/ux
but yeah i agree, regional bs is an issue. with region set to Ukraine and searching in English/Ukrainian i get a lot of russian websites for some reason.
I can't stand russian and i fully blocked the whole .ru/.su tld.
They are of no use to me anyway.
google still suggests them even with language filters (lang:...)
Ecosia and DuckDuckGo
I use duckduckgo. One thing I notice about the google language is that my phone has french as the os language so google will be in french but then I go to a computer that has english as it's language, sign in and google will be in french (even though my account is set to english). So check your OS and browser language settings on all devices you signed in on.
I'm solely an English speaker so it's not th case for me but thank you for the suggestion.
I'm a developer and I've been trying out www.phind.com, has been decent so far. It gives you both a chatGPT/AI answer and a regular search engine result at the same time. Just don't rely on it to write an accurate RegEx...
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I was using Brave until last month. They did something and now image search redirects to Google/Bing so might as well use Google I guess...
Oh and also the normal search results got really bad all of a sudden.
Wow, glad I'm not the only one who had that impression. I have been using Brave Search for about half a year now and rarely had any problems finding what I was looking for, then eventually I started getting mostly older results, sometimes not even on topic.
I decided to try to commit to Brave since it's the sole one to use open maps while DDG uses Apple.
Startpage is great and uses g00g's search index. DuckDuckGo used to be my goto, but then they switched to using Microsoft Bing's search index.
Brave search. The results have been better for me than most of the major players, summarizer comes in handy, and the discussions section showing forum posts on the searched for topic + top comment is useful. No native image section, but I work around that by !s bang to search on startpage when I need images. And yes, it has bangs, just like DDG.
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I tried you.com for a long period of time. It has some nice ways to present content but overall I too often did not find what I was looking for so I switched back to startpage.com as unpersonalized version of Google.
Ddg, brave and startpage
Searxng (searx.be) / startpage
I use DDG and im pretty happy with it. I now pretty much only use google if i need to find working hours and location of a store on google maps, as DDG doesnt have that information as obviously available
DDG all the way
I mainly use DDG, including bangs to search other sites, but I occasionally still use Google if I'm having trouble finding something.
Big fan of Kagi, though Bing chat is unironically very good for most of my needs.
Google has been worse than Bing for most of the last two years, but Kagi was working better for me than either for the last year. Bing chat is a whole different animal, though.
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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 use startpage, I usually prefer it's results to ddg
Gruble.de, eine Searxng Instanz welche von Adminforge betrieben wird
Presearch. I run a node and get paid for running it. The searches are solid as well.
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I changed to Metager https://metager.org/ … it’s the only one I’ve found that still respects yer "string search"