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Yandex (Russian) is not too bad
Gives good results. Less shitty than Bing and Google in my opinion.
Mojeek (British) is never mentioned enough. It has own crawlers.

The ones you named aren't inherently bad but all just get results from Google and Bing and filter them in their own way.

>>312135
Iv'e used mojeek in the past and the results were shite.

None of these are good. Duckduckgo especially is tracked. You need to use SearX, searx.space

>>312163
lol thanks nona

>>312165
Use another instance or change the settings lol

>>312086
Google, bing, yandex and most of the time qwant can't find anything.
Ask Grok.

The other use AI as well, but add their filters and then a triple thick layer of sponsored content. You should rather ask an AI directly.

I personally use Startpage. I hear that DuckDuckGo isn't as private as people are lead to believe but my friend was showing me they have an option to filter out AI images from the image search which is pretty cool.

>>312165
Tried that on myallsearch - seems pretty relevant, seems like it pulls results from Google & Bing

I’ve reviewed a few of the options listed, and the results are largely the same across the board. What I find frustrating, though, is the constant appearance of 'AI Suggestions.' I’d prefer to do my own searching without having snippets pushed at me. I get that this is the direction things are heading, but seriously—if I want an AI-generated summary, I’ll ask for one.
I can't be the only one fed up with that!!!

>>312330
No guarantee that even traditional search engines won't be running AI under the hood to return results but yea the summary blurbs are wasted space at best. (and more often hilariously off-base mashups of contradictions and AI hallucination)

Also, kagi.com returns a good sweep of results the few times I've used it. It takes an account registration (or link), though, so privacyheads be forewarned

I use brave for easy search and Tor for anything more than the surface. I prefer the classics

>>313032
same here

>>313032
I use Brave on my phone because my friend’s military dad makes her use it. I need to get back into Tor but I am bad at using it.

>>312086
>Privacy
For anything privacy related, I like to check out privacy guide's recommendations.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/
https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy?tab=readme-ov-file#search-engines
I personally like to use Startpage for its similarity to google, Brave for its AI and DuckDuckGo because you can watch youtube videos on there without having to open youtube.
(I also watch youtube videos via invidious instances https://docs.invidious.io/instances/ or just use peertube at https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content )
I looked a bit into https://docs.searxng.org/ and tried out SearX instances, but the results don't seem as relevant to me compared to other engines' and setting things up would take some work. If I was at a point where I'd need secure privacy to this extent, I'd be using Tor and a different device anyway. For .onion sites, I've used Ahmia at https://ahmia.fi/
>more engines
I've been looking for different search engines myself; my go-to to search for site and program alternatives is this site: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/
Now I don't know how privacy focussed they are, but I like to use WolframAlpha for technical searches https://www.wolframalpha.com/ and I recommended https://www.factmonster.com/ to a parent before.
I also use AI search engines like https://www.perplexity.ai/ for random stuff and https://consensus.app/ to look into research stuff.
There's of course https://search.brave.com/ask which is a more privacy-focussed AI, which is nice. I've been thinking of trying out https://www.saner.ai/ but at this point, that'd be overdoing it and I'll probably stick to Brave and the ChatGPT app on my phone anyway.
>>312135
I actually like the yandex image search, but when you check out the Terms of Service summary, it's not looking great https://tosdr.org/en/service/860
I rarely use mojeek but I like that it actually looks for the words you typed in instead of related subjects.
>>314247
>I need to get back into Tor but I am bad at using it
I feel u

>>314344
>privacy-focussed AI
That's an oxymoron. They all sell your data.