Google chrome for ordinary search. For more challenging qwant, searX.
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Brave search. It used to be that until a couple of months ago I'd have to rely on the "Fallback mixing" or g! feature for some more obscure queries. Nowadays, if I can't find it a good result on Brave I feel like Google gives me the same or a worse response.
Brave search but am looking for something else now that image search has been removed.
I mainly use DDG, including bangs to search other sites, but I occasionally still use Google if I'm having trouble finding something.
I use duckduckgo. One thing I notice about the google language is that my phone has french as the os language so google will be in french but then I go to a computer that has english as it's language, sign in and google will be in french (even though my account is set to english). So check your OS and browser language settings on all devices you signed in on.
Searxng
- searX
- DuckDuckGo
- Brave
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.
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...
startpage
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.
I use my own instance of SearXNG, its private, and has good settings. It is a few milliseconds slow with some searches taking 1 second.
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 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
I use DDG pretty exclusively. I've never had issues with it, I set it as default and didn't think about it after that
Been very happy with DuckDuckGo for a while now.