cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4448974
I’ve recently started using a self hosted SearXNG instance but I’m still using the search engines enabled by default (google, duckduckgo and qwant). What search engines do you have enabled or which ones do you feel you’ve gotten the best results with?
I can’t be bothered to self host a search engine. I just stick to duck duck go and I’ve tried some whoogle instances but I just prefer ddg at this point.
I’ve stuck with DuckDuckGo for years. It’s mostly gotten pretty good if you search in English. Other languages can be iffy.
SearXNG, it was fairly easy to get used to coming from duckduckgo because
!!uses the same !bang search as ddg. (honestly !bang searches were the only thing keeping me on ddg)I’m already using SearXNG. The point of my question is to find out what search engines I should enable in it.
oh sorry, I guess my reading comprehension skills are a bit subpar
DuckDuckGO for the bangs, with a custom !bang made for my favorite SearXNG instance; on which most of my ‘googling’ actually happens.
DuckDuckGo, I’ll switch to SearXNG as soon as it comes to Windows
There are public instances you can use, or if you want it locally hosted, there is wsl2. (Alternatively, join the dark side and install linux!)
Presearch. I don’t care for the crypto features. (I already got Monero anyway) but the concept of a decentralized search engine is interesting.
Brave Search and Startpage.
ecosia.org It care about my privacy and It also plant Trees from ad revenue.
Me too, though unfortunately I systematically ignore search results with the ad mark, so it’s not really helpful…
I am using https://4get.ca/ It’s a metasearch engine, I can search in various search engines anonymously through it.
Qwant for work and DDG for personal stuff
I currently use searx.org instance of SearXNG which for me works decently, and I can still use the ! searches of DuckDuckGo in it, just adding another !, like !!wikipedia
Brave is surprisingly good
It is but unfortunately it doesn’t work in SearXNG most of the time
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