I've been using presearch.com and and quite happy with the results it gives for any question. Yes, there are one or two sponsored links, but the rest consists of great results
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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I used DuckDuckGo for years but I recently decided to make my own minimalist frontend to Bing API + Brave API and I added bangs of course.
Ecosia on desktop, DuckDuckGo on mobile.
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I find Ecosia's results to be the better than other privacy-focused search engines, sometimes even better than Google. It struggles with searches in Turkish tho.
For the moment I am using brave search not on brave browser but as a firefox add-on, a fine tuned searx.be and perplexity.ai, which isnt a search engine but a connected chatgpt ai with links in the answers.
Google most of the time, Yandex if I need to find pictures. Their image search is more like Google's before they nerfed it. I've used Qwant off and on in the past and rather liked it.
I use Bing just because it was immediately available when I decided I didn't want to use Google anymore.
Startpage most of the time but its so slow in showing you the result. When im using the web for studying i just use google without an account because its just WAY faster
I'm using DuckDuckGo but I'm going to switch back to Brave Search when images will be ready
Ever since Bing introduced their AI stuff I've been trialing it + Edge on my main computer. It's not so bad but sometimes I do need to use Google to actually find what I'm looking for. Currently using Google on everything else though. The AI stuff is actually pretty good but I feel like if Google makes their implementation more widespread most people are just going to use that vs Bing.