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What search engines are you using ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the title says! My choice, for now, is Leta, directly from Mullvad. I really like because there are no ads by deafult, which is particular important since those ads usually lead to malware.

Otherwise, i like mojeek (same reason).

They both have a strong privacy policy and search results are good enough for me.

Leta: https://leta.mullvad.net/faq

Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy :)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

duckduckgo mostly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I fully switched to DDG last summer and it is totally fine for ~90% of my searches, except its image search is way worse than Google's.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Kagi! Been using it for a year and I'm very happy with it. The lens feature helps me when I want to deep dive on something and the small web option feels sort of sweet to me hahah

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I did not know Kagi. Thank you!

Edit: spelling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Gladly paying for Kagi as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There was an interesting post on Kagi a few days ago; with an alternative take on how it operates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Holy shit, the man is truly unhinged

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

searx.neocities.org

It will automatically redirect to a random SearX instance, which is nice because they can keep track of which ones are active so I don’t have to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its pretty nice but sometimes it directs to a Thai (or other language) instance and while it doesn't matter for the immediate search results it can be annoying when you wanted to check images for example.

Doesn't mean not to use it but it surprised me a couple times so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

My guess is those instances are misconfigured, didn't set their language correctly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Kagi. I'm happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I yell into the void until someone brings me an answer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

SearXNG

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For anyone wondering about Leta it proxies Google searches. Available only to Mullvad users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hi! Now Leta seems to proxi also Brave searches!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Interesting, I was just going off the linked FAQ. I don't use Mullvad so I was curious, thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use SearXNG and Startpage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Startpage is really nice. I use it when sites blocks VPN users like me since i can proxy every page i visit through them!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/, just in case anyone doesn't want to append the y :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Uh, really sorry for that! I will correct my typo! :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Qwant but sometimes DuckDuckGo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I use Duckduckgo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Duck Duck Go with a searx fallback

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Brave search + DuckDuckGo

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

yandex