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I use MullvadVPN and recently started using Mullvads leta search service. It is basically a Front End for Googles Search APi. The result of an external audit was released recently.
The results arengood so far, but I'm not sure if I'll be using it long term.
Google for ordinary search. For more challenging qwant, searX.
Hosting my own Whoogle and LibreX, they work decently well for my purpose.
I use both startpage and duckduckgo, I use different browsers for different uses. For example: duckduckgo browser for work/professional use, mull for social media, tor for general browsing, I also recently started using MySudo for the same purposes with it's built in browsers
I just run a searxng instance for myself. Fetches from multiple sources.
I've heard good things about kagi, but it does require paying for (though you can try out a free tier to see if it'll work for you)
I used to host my own instance of searx, but lately Startpage.
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I mainly use DDG, including bangs to search other sites, but I occasionally still use Google if I'm having trouble finding something.
I used to use startpage, but I’ve recently switched to using random SearXNG instances with libredirect. It’s pretty good results wise and means I’m not dependant on just one entity providing my results.
I use DDG and im pretty happy with it. I now pretty much only use google if i need to find working hours and location of a store on google maps, as DDG doesnt have that information as obviously available
DDG. On a related note, it seems like Google doesn't know me at all, 'cause they always give me wiki results in my local language over the english wiki, although I exclusively click the google search result for English Wikipedia further down...
Surprising no one has said Metager yet, very privacy focused search engine, no hassle.
I use DDG on desktop and Google on mobile. Unfortunately Google still has some conveniences that I can't give up just yet.
Like several others, self hosted searxng instance. Suits me perfectly
I use startpage, I usually prefer it's results to ddg
Brave Search on all my personal devices, even though I'm getting worse results than up to a few months ago, so as much as it pains to admit it I sometimes use Google as a fallback (and the last time I actually used Google as my main search engine was back in 2012!). I probably should use metasearch engines more, though, but have been procrastinating learning how to effectively use them for a while now.
Aside from that, I have about a dozen sites saved with search keywords on Firefox (four of them are Wikipedia in different languages, though) that I use all the time.
Big fan of Kagi, though Bing chat is unironically very good for most of my needs.
Google has been worse than Bing for most of the last two years, but Kagi was working better for me than either for the last year. Bing chat is a whole different animal, though.
DuckDuckGo is great, I also switched to Brave Search a couple months ago. The results aren't as good, but I like how it's independently indexed.
I wish I used DuckDuckGo more, but lately Google has been the default...
DDG all the way