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What search engine do you use? (and why?) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by pumpkin@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'll go first. I've used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I'm currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg's but at least I'm planting trees, so there's that.

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[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SearX-NG, coming off DuckDuckGo it wasn't a major change in the internal structure (the search gets relayed over to a larger search engine), but there's no one company behind it like DDG. They've been working together with Microsoft on some rather sketchy things.

I would still love to self-host something decent (that doesn't relay over to a company), but nothing like that exists as far as I know.

[–] Lyfja@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Duckduckgo, works like I want it to and it's not Google. Never had a problem with its search results either. Tried several others as well including searx and ecosia but I found their image search inferior to ddg's.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago

Kagi is better though. I was using ddg for a long time but had to use Google now and then to get good results.

[–] Krusty@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

I'm using DuckDuckGo but I'm going to switch back to Brave Search when images will be ready

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Bing because I'm getting paid for it

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

DDG, it works well enough for me, and not that I got used to bangs I cannot let go of them

[–] agarorn@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope this mullvad project will work out

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

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[–] visnudeva@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] hllywluis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Steve@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I hate adds. I was using Neeva. Just switched to Kagi. After nearly 3 weeks, it looks like 300 searches/month will work for me. So $5 a month is fine.

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