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.
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.