Would https://google.com/ncr help you? It's google "no country redirect"
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I hop between Brave search, Startpage and DuckDuckGo depending on the results I get.
I started using Kagi recently and it’s fantastic. The results have been great, it’s pretty customisable and it uses all the same ! bangs as DuckDuckGo. Don’t feel like I have to use Google at all anymore (which wasn’t the case when I used DDG as my go-to). Plus, since it’s a paid service, there are no ads and no guff.
I was using Brave until last month. They did something and now image search redirects to Google/Bing so might as well use Google I guess...
Oh and also the normal search results got really bad all of a sudden.
Wow, glad I'm not the only one who had that impression. I have been using Brave Search for about half a year now and rarely had any problems finding what I was looking for, then eventually I started getting mostly older results, sometimes not even on topic.
Kagi is a great premium alternative. They focus obsessively on search result quality and adding helpful, but non invasive AI tools. One of them is even free as an experiment!
Yes, this. I purchased a subscription and never looked back.
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I use Bing now due to Microsoft Rewards and Bing AI
Ecosia, but I need to setup a SearXNG instance sometime.
Searxng (searx.be) / startpage
DDG all the way
DuckDuckGo always
Startpage is great and uses g00g's search index. DuckDuckGo used to be my goto, but then they switched to using Microsoft Bing's search index.
I recently tried Brave and Duckduckgo, but I always come back to Startpage. It's a little bit slow but search result more satisfied for me.
DDG. On a related note, it seems like Google doesn't 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...
I changed to Metager https://metager.org/ … it’s the only one I’ve found that still respects yer "string search"
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.
Like several others, self hosted searxng instance. Suits me perfectly
I use ddg most of the time. It fits all my needs. Sometimes when it comes to very niche things or complicated things I use startpage or brave.
Brave search. The results have been better for me than most of the major players, summarizer comes in handy, and the discussions section showing forum posts on the searched for topic + top comment is useful. No native image section, but I work around that by !s bang to search on startpage when I need images. And yes, it has bangs, just like DDG.
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'm using Startpage.com (can set the location - I also have the problem that I use a VPN and keep getting not the language I want. IDK how to make it stick though), and Kagi paid for a bit now.
Hosting my own Whoogle and LibreX, they work decently well for my purpose.
Google chrome for ordinary search. For more challenging qwant, searX.
When I setup a new browser, I always delete all the default search engines and install DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant and Startpage. If I'm looking for accurate results, I always use 2 or 3 of these. I can't say I consistently get better results using one or the other.
I run my own SearXNG instance, which is a metasearch engine that shows results from a bunch of other search engines. I find it incredibly useful! It's very customizable as well
I use Ecosia. Supposedly I've done enough searches for 241 trees to be planted, and I've yet to see anything that suggests they dont follow through with the promise to fund the planting of trees (although I've not actively looked). I think it's backed by bing so the results are a bit iffy sometimes, but I use the equivalent of ddg bangs to search Google if I need
Gruble.de, eine Searxng Instanz welche von Adminforge betrieben wird