• Emi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use a searxng instance as-well, one I can host myself. Besides the cool factor of hosting your own personal search engine you can tweak the setting a on a server level as you wish and you know the machine your queries are going to.

      • Emi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        When I want to try something AI related I use the Bing AI though, it can pull from multiple search results when giving an answer which is cool.

  • Nankeru@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Kagi, hands down, is by far the best search engine I’ve ever used (next to Neeva, which got bought and shut down).

    Just simple searches like “Best gaming headphones” or “Realtek Driver Download” and comparing them with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, etc. shows how the quality of the results are far superior.

    And you can directly define, which sites you’d like to see higher / more results of or less - or even completely block or pin them to the top.

    Also, it also shows you directly, before visiting a site, in colors if a site has a very high number of ads and/or trackers.

    And they support for power users custom CSS to adjust everything, URL rewrites (e.g. change all Reddit URLs to old.reddit or to automatically open libreddit), DDG and custom bangs, and much more.

    Lastly, I created a so-called “Lens”, which allows me to search Lemmy / Kbin content only (also still have one for Reddit).
    Meaning with one click, it shows me results from only sites or keywords I’ve defined - see image.

    Very satisfied with it, can only recommend.

    (copied from another thread I replied to)

    • metaeaux@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also, TIL about URL rewrites! Now all of my search results use private frontends. Thanks for the tip!

  • ajimix@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Kagi.com no ads, private, you pay a subscription so they look for your interest instead of you being the product, has many customizations, very responsive company, very good use of AI, super fast, doesn’t require javascript, and many other things, just give it a try

    • Jomn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      What paid plan do you use ? If it’s not the ultimate plan, do you often go over the “limit” ? I’m interested, but I have a hard time knowing what plan I will actually require.

      • ajimix@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m also on the early adopter unlimited plan. What I suggest is that you take a conservative plan and observe your behavior, you can always upgrade to a bigger plan later

  • Im28xwa@lemdro.idEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Startpage, google search results without ads, trackers but much slower, the slowness can get annoying sometimes when my internet speed is bad

  • dawnerd@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Been using DDG almost exclusively (still need google occasionally) but noticed the quality on DDG has been decreasing with the ride of generative content. Anything travel or review related is just garbage.

  • Evkob@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use DuckDuckGo, I forgot how to live without the search tags such as !yt, !fb, !w to search specific sites.

  • Einar@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    For general purposes I use Ecosia.

    For a while I used Swisscows almost exclusively. They do an excellent job with privacy.

    Due to a job I had, I moved away from it as I needed extremely specific information. As I write this, I’m thinking of giving it another try.

  • Gaarco@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Brave search works well, but I have the feeling they are playing with user’s data otherwise I can’t explain their business model