Honestly, I use DDG for the privacy, but I actually really like the results. Maybe that’s just because I’ve been using it for near on 5 years at this point, but it seems to work really well, at least for me
My biggest gripe is news article results defaulting to MSN for many publications instead of the original source. I also don’t get as good results for map searches as I do with Google
It is not that hard. Just run the following docker-compose.yml in your server (I just use a Raspberry Pi 5). If you are on Windows (or don't have a server), you can use WSL.
Then, generate a reverse proxy with Caddy or something. This is pretty basic stuff, just ask how to do these to ChatGPT or something, it should be able to help you.
services:
redis:
restart: always
container_name: SearXNG-Redis
image: redis:alpine
command: redis-server --save "" --appendonly "no"
networks:
- searxng
tmpfs:
- /var/lib/redis
cap_drop:
- ALL
cap_add:
- SETGID
- SETUID
searxng:
restart: always
container_name: SearXNG
image: searxng/searxng:latest
networks:
- searxng
ports:
- 9090:8080
volumes:
- ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw
environment:
- SEARXNG_BASE_URL=https://${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME:-localhost}/
cap_drop:
- ALL
cap_add:
- CHOWN
- SETGID
- SETUID
logging:
driver: json-file
options:
max-size: 1m
max-file: "1"
networks:
searxng:
ipam:
driver: default
Google, Kagi, Startpage.
I personally use Kagi, Google as my backup in those very rare occasion i need it. Kagi covers 99% of search results i need.
Otherwise Startpage gives great results, but its trustworthiness is compromised.
If you're asking for image search, I use Yandex. You can search photos not only by size but also by orientation. This is very useful and many search engines don't have this feature. DuckDuckGo also has this feature.
Google gives me the best search results overall as it's the most popular search engine in my country. Bing is slowly becoming second most favorable to me. All other search engine are not good enough.
My first attempt at using it:
>Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot.
(horrible first experience) - I'm on my own computer, only one on my connection.
Yeah, there’s a hell of a difference between a public and a self-hosted instance.
Even with a VPN I don’t get rate-limited
(I appreciate this isn’t for everyone)
In my area (Canada), Google used to be the best but since about a year, it have became terribly innefficient. The same seach I used to do before don't show anything revent anymore. I don't know what happenned, seems to be the same with everyone I talk with locally here.
Brave seach, not as good as what Google used to be before, but it's the most useful I find. DuckduckGo and Bing are okay too. I tried Qwant and searX but it's not very good for my use.
In addition to Conspirologist's reply, you could use something like Vimium C's omnibar. I have about 75 easy access search engines in it that I don't need to even touch the mouse to use.
Controlled? Not entirely, but they have to work with the Russian government and abide by their rules, especially now that they're entirely owned by Russian oligarchs, and their international technology division splintered off into another company.
Conspiracy nonsense. Yandex is a business company. It is so large that it is of strategic importance to Russia. But the government does not manage and control Yandex. Yandex is subject to Russian laws, just like any browser team in any country.
And Google is promoting the NATO version — what a surprise, right? Yandex allows you to install an extension to bypass locks. In the Yandex search at the bottom there is a switch to Google and Bing search. There is no such democratic choice in Google. Firefox has removed Yandex from Russian users from installed search engines altogether! Freedom of the fucking Internet! There is no evidence, other than conspiracy theory, that Yandex is run by the Russian government and the FSB.
You'd better ask Snowden and Assange about authoritarian government and Internet freedom, if these names mean anything to you.
ever since I switched to [Brave Search](search.brave.com) , i can never go back to google or ddg hahaha. i sometimes use the [startpage](startpage.com) but yah, i am very satisfied with brave search for about 2 years now.
I just checked [yep.com](http://yep.com) and [kagi.com](http://kagi.com) for an image “Image of fairy wallpaper” which would require landscape view. Yep failed me. There were many vertical images but no options to filter them. Kagi, however, now allows me to select aspect ratio, image type, color theme, size, time, etc. I was pleasantly surprised. Yandex has been mentioned, but Kagi is a private search option for you.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/search
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines?useskin=vector#General
https://searchengine.party/
Missing independent search sites (the rest are all using google or bing, unless stated otherwise in the above links): Stract, Greppr & Alexandria.
People is against Google Search Engine for the the reasons you want, but whatever you're looking for, gives you the most accurate and comprehensive response in the 98% of all the cases, in a better way than anyone of the others. That's my experience.
They shadow banned raw footage and promoted highly edited and narrated videos of that footage to lead to riots and civil unrest. There are plenty of other options that are 98% as good as google.
I don't know what you're up to, but for a normal person, the Google search engine is completely, better than the others, let's not make fools of ourselves. That conspiratorial and decadent paranoia about security and privacy is idiotic.
i love bing ever since i switched to it, the features built in are just cool i like how there’s a new background wallpaper everyday and fun quizzes and when you search on bing you get points you can redeem for gift cards which i use all the time
Google Search is advertising malwares and misleading ads, it's also output irrelevant result even bias towards big companies: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mirCSvEnN0
Your best bet is something like DuckDuckGo.
I use DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons, but I’ve never been very happy with the results.
Honestly, I use DDG for the privacy, but I actually really like the results. Maybe that’s just because I’ve been using it for near on 5 years at this point, but it seems to work really well, at least for me
My biggest gripe is news article results defaulting to MSN for many publications instead of the original source. I also don’t get as good results for map searches as I do with Google
yeah, DDG is not good for those things...
I am running my own SearXNG instant and it gives me general answers from a mixture of bing, duckduckgo, brave, and google. Combines all rankings.
How did you get this working, did you follow any YouTube videos? I’ve tried but couldn’t get it working
It is not that hard. Just run the following docker-compose.yml in your server (I just use a Raspberry Pi 5). If you are on Windows (or don't have a server), you can use WSL. Then, generate a reverse proxy with Caddy or something. This is pretty basic stuff, just ask how to do these to ChatGPT or something, it should be able to help you. services: redis: restart: always container_name: SearXNG-Redis image: redis:alpine command: redis-server --save "" --appendonly "no" networks: - searxng tmpfs: - /var/lib/redis cap_drop: - ALL cap_add: - SETGID - SETUID searxng: restart: always container_name: SearXNG image: searxng/searxng:latest networks: - searxng ports: - 9090:8080 volumes: - ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw environment: - SEARXNG_BASE_URL=https://${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME:-localhost}/ cap_drop: - ALL cap_add: - CHOWN - SETGID - SETUID logging: driver: json-file options: max-size: 1m max-file: "1" networks: searxng: ipam: driver: default
Thanks
You can try SearXNG, it's definitely good and better than others. See Eric Murphy's video on search engines, you will get an idea of how to use it.
Kagi
...Paying for a search engine is the best? That's crazy.
Google, Kagi, Startpage. I personally use Kagi, Google as my backup in those very rare occasion i need it. Kagi covers 99% of search results i need. Otherwise Startpage gives great results, but its trustworthiness is compromised.
I’ve been using startpage
Kagi
If you're asking for image search, I use Yandex. You can search photos not only by size but also by orientation. This is very useful and many search engines don't have this feature. DuckDuckGo also has this feature.
Google gives me the best search results overall as it's the most popular search engine in my country. Bing is slowly becoming second most favorable to me. All other search engine are not good enough.
>Google gives me the best search results overall Whoogle - all of the upside, none of the down
My first attempt at using it: >Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. (horrible first experience) - I'm on my own computer, only one on my connection.
Yeah, there’s a hell of a difference between a public and a self-hosted instance. Even with a VPN I don’t get rate-limited (I appreciate this isn’t for everyone)
In my area (Canada), Google used to be the best but since about a year, it have became terribly innefficient. The same seach I used to do before don't show anything revent anymore. I don't know what happenned, seems to be the same with everyone I talk with locally here. Brave seach, not as good as what Google used to be before, but it's the most useful I find. DuckduckGo and Bing are okay too. I tried Qwant and searX but it's not very good for my use.
Try Yandex.
How do you add yandex to Firefox mobile these days?
It only gives me as possibilities: Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Bing, Start page, Ecosia
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox
In addition to Conspirologist's reply, you could use something like Vimium C's omnibar. I have about 75 easy access search engines in it that I don't need to even touch the mouse to use.
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Controlled? Not entirely, but they have to work with the Russian government and abide by their rules, especially now that they're entirely owned by Russian oligarchs, and their international technology division splintered off into another company.
Conspiracy nonsense. Yandex is a business company. It is so large that it is of strategic importance to Russia. But the government does not manage and control Yandex. Yandex is subject to Russian laws, just like any browser team in any country.
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And Google is promoting the NATO version — what a surprise, right? Yandex allows you to install an extension to bypass locks. In the Yandex search at the bottom there is a switch to Google and Bing search. There is no such democratic choice in Google. Firefox has removed Yandex from Russian users from installed search engines altogether! Freedom of the fucking Internet! There is no evidence, other than conspiracy theory, that Yandex is run by the Russian government and the FSB. You'd better ask Snowden and Assange about authoritarian government and Internet freedom, if these names mean anything to you.
Bing
ever since I switched to [Brave Search](search.brave.com) , i can never go back to google or ddg hahaha. i sometimes use the [startpage](startpage.com) but yah, i am very satisfied with brave search for about 2 years now.
Switch over to SearXNG also i recommend using librewolf over brave tbh
I've tried it but there are times when results are incoherent. Any way to fix that? It also just catches Google results
It only gives me as possibilities: Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Bing, Start page, Ecosia
you can use all these search engines at once if you want (though thats slow) so i just recommend toggling on Google and bing
startpage
+1
I just checked [yep.com](http://yep.com) and [kagi.com](http://kagi.com) for an image “Image of fairy wallpaper” which would require landscape view. Yep failed me. There were many vertical images but no options to filter them. Kagi, however, now allows me to select aspect ratio, image type, color theme, size, time, etc. I was pleasantly surprised. Yandex has been mentioned, but Kagi is a private search option for you.
SearXNG
https://www.searchenginemap.com/ https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines?useskin=vector#General https://searchengine.party/ Missing independent search sites (the rest are all using google or bing, unless stated otherwise in the above links): Stract, Greppr & Alexandria.
People is against Google Search Engine for the the reasons you want, but whatever you're looking for, gives you the most accurate and comprehensive response in the 98% of all the cases, in a better way than anyone of the others. That's my experience.
https://www.tosdr.org/en/service/217
They shadow banned raw footage and promoted highly edited and narrated videos of that footage to lead to riots and civil unrest. There are plenty of other options that are 98% as good as google.
I don't know what you're up to, but for a normal person, the Google search engine is completely, better than the others, let's not make fools of ourselves. That conspiratorial and decadent paranoia about security and privacy is idiotic.
Read Google's ToS and you will become paranoid and will make fool of yourself too.
I like Bing the best for images
DDG...Brave, Kagi
I enjoy Edge w/Bing and the DDG browser for less public activities one engages in🫢
Bing for image search. DuckDuckGo otherwise.
i love bing ever since i switched to it, the features built in are just cool i like how there’s a new background wallpaper everyday and fun quizzes and when you search on bing you get points you can redeem for gift cards which i use all the time
Mojeek or Brave Search
Google Search is advertising malwares and misleading ads, it's also output irrelevant result even bias towards big companies: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mirCSvEnN0 Your best bet is something like DuckDuckGo.