I currently use Startpage, but i’m wary of their Vanish AI. Or at least tired of seeing ads for it. I use Wiby and Marginalia already, but their indexes aren’t really broad enough for much of what i need.
I figure this is a good place to ask because nobody here is going to recommend anything with an Al overview or other such crap.
Looking at my browser history, what i search for is technical problems with Linux, linguistics, games i play, CAD, fonts, recipes, typography, all sorts of stuff. Hence the desire for a general purpose search engine.
So what do you folks use? Is it just noai.duckduckgo.com for everyone?
I use Ecosia and Qwant. They are European services. Ecosia has AI button, but you don’t need to use it. Ecosia and Qwant have built a European search index, and will hopefully expand its usage through out this year.
Ecosia and Qwant have built a European search index
Did they build one each, or one together?
It’s a joint venture by the two. Here’s a blog post from last year: https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/
And, this is the webpage of the search index: https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/
Ah, nice. Thank you very much.
One together.
I’d recommend Kagi if you don’t mind paying. They have optional AI features, but they also have anti-AI features… Not sure how this community feels about Kagi but It works great and also let’s you customize results and widgets, so you can disable ai summaries and image result boxes for example, and pin/raise/lower/block domains, or have custom ‘lenses’ that narrow search criteria: particularly useful for technical / reference searching
I second kagi.
thirded, couldn’t be happier with it.
Fourthed. I’m a rotten cheapskate who pirates movies and wears thrift store clothes and mooches meals from friends, but I pay for Kagi and it’s worth more than the price.
Do you have unlimited or starter? I feel like 300 searches a month is nothing. I’d be happy to pay $5 a month but $10 seems steep to me.
I personally search over 20 times a day so I suggest using the free searches they give you then deciding whether the 10$ is worth it.
I would try the 300 and upgrade to unlimited if you hit the limit, personally.
Noai.ducduckgo is my go to
html.duckduckgo.com is even better imho
The former redirects to the latter. Any reason that’s better than DuckDuckGo lite? The main difference i see is that the lite version relies less on CSS so i can use it in basically any browser.
Same. I fallback to Startpage when duck isn’t giving me results but that doesn’t happen too often.
what about searxng? there are a few public instances around. https://metasearx.com/ is one such instance, but can be hosted by anyone, so you can host your own if you want. Just be aware, if you set up your own instance, you want searxng, not searx, as searx isn’t maintained anymore.
That is so, so cool. Running my own search instance had never even occurred to me
the only thing is, it’s easier to fingerprint you if you’re the only one on your instance, so I avoid hosting my own, but it’s nice to have that option
eTools.ch seems to work well for me. Disable javascript since it only enables analytics.
I’ve been using startpage for about two years. It’s okay. Not great but good enough that it handles 95% of my searches.
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