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Best private search engine? (self.privacy)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by danielintempesta to c/privacy
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In my opinion, considering both usability and privacy:

  1. SearxNG/Searx (Selfhosted) +++++
  2. SearxNG (Trusted instances: searx.be, paulgo.io) ++++
  3. Brave Search +++
  4. DuckDuckGo +++
  5. Whoogle (Selfhosted) +++
  6. Kagi (credit card and name required) ++
  7. MetaGer ++
  8. Swisscows +
  9. StartPage +
  10. Qwant +
  11. Ecosia +
  12. Presearch +
  13. You . com +
  14. etools .ch ?

Avoid:

  • Google
  • Bing/Yahoo
  • ¿Phind?

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[–] JackbyDev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo (DDG) has some bad results sometimes. I am ashamed (only a little) to admit that I sometimes use Google if I need better results or can't find something on DDG.

[–] danielintempesta 2 points 1 year ago

Try Paulgo.io (instance of SearxNG)

[–] msage 1 points 1 year ago

DDG can sometimes miss something, but few times I tried Google it didn't help.

After this post I tried SearX, and it actually delivered better results than DDG on one issue I had trouble with.