I liked Startpage, but it’s super slow in my country. So now I use Brave.
Searx is best in my opinion.
Personally, I use a VPN on my phone, as such, I just install Termux and with that, install and run a Searx instance on my phone. It takes like 7+ minutes. Despite what others here say, I run it on my phone and I cannot tell a difference in battery or resource use. And my phone is old.
Not sure if I might be doing something wrong, but when I use Brave Search (in one of my browsers) and want to search for images, I am directly asked whether I want to use Bing or Google, and when I make my selection, I continue with one of these two. Because of that I decided to go back to DDG again…
Brave Search is really good. They just need to add image search and maybe a Maps integration.
This is very true, and I am most attracted to the last catagory in think. I think I’ll try brave for now, and probably look at mojeek sometime.
This is too much a simplification of how a modern search engine operate, which is now via a dozen or so major indexes, with web just being one, and one that has been diminishing year over year for a decade now. For example, on mobile, which is now more traffic than desktop and continuing to rise faster, local search is the number one sourced indexed, and we maintain our own local index at DuckDuckGo. Similarly on desktop the “knowledge graph” set of instant answers has been rising for a decade as well, and we also do that index ourselves. Put another way, we have over 1,000,000 lines of search code at this point!
Kagi is so damm good. Can’t recommend them enough. Price might be steep but I think its worth the investment
Price is too steep for me. I don’t see myself paying $20 a month for a search engine (family plan).
Also, how is it private if you need an account? Another “you gotta trust them”. I didn’t check where they’re located, but depending on that, subpoenas could be a thing as well.
More recenctly, brave has switched completely independent. You can still enable results mixing, but it seems ok. The image search is still from bing or google, however.
It’s tied to their crypto bullshit. Besides, Brave has other issues.
I got it but I never enabled it, but they aren’t very intrusive and I quickly could report (it was an ad from softonic to download voicemod appearing over the real website)
Brave is also an advertising company but people love them to death.
I’ve used Qwant on andriod, and I when I search something, it automatically defaults to thier domain, to which I would have to re-enter my request. I don’t have any expierience with it on PC so it is stupid of me to dismiss it. Will try.
Glad to see you’ve noticed progress, it’s been at the top of our minds!
I’ve been using presearch and I like it a lot. I don’t normally have to switch search engines but it’s easy
If you default to it and don’t fine what you’re looking for, it’s one-click to swap over to one of the big search engines
This is my issue with searxng too. It misses the nail half the time, which sucks. Do you get this too with presearch?
Didn’t know of its existence, looks good! Thank you!
I have never heard of LibreX, is it indipendent or does it show google/bing’s results?
but now it redirects to bing/google for image search. i mean why do i have to go to google/bing for image? so we can’t say brave is independent. that’s why I’m sticking with ddg for now.