cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4448974
I’ve recently started using a self hosted SearXNG instance but I’m still using the search engines enabled by default (google, duckduckgo and qwant). What search engines do you have enabled or which ones do you feel you’ve gotten the best results with?
I’ve stuck with DuckDuckGo for years. It’s mostly gotten pretty good if you search in English. Other languages can be iffy.
I can’t be bothered to self host a search engine. I just stick to duck duck go and I’ve tried some whoogle instances but I just prefer ddg at this point.
SearXNG, it was fairly easy to get used to coming from duckduckgo because
!!uses the same !bang search as ddg. (honestly !bang searches were the only thing keeping me on ddg)I’m already using SearXNG. The point of my question is to find out what search engines I should enable in it.
oh sorry, I guess my reading comprehension skills are a bit subpar
DuckDuckGO for the bangs, with a custom !bang made for my favorite SearXNG instance; on which most of my ‘googling’ actually happens.
DuckDuckGo, I’ll switch to SearXNG as soon as it comes to Windows
There are public instances you can use, or if you want it locally hosted, there is wsl2. (Alternatively, join the dark side and install linux!)
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I used to use searx for a couple years but it got too unreliable where it would fail to load results all the time randomly. Tried DDG and consistently ended up having to manually switch to google after the results on DDG just weren’t good enough (think troubleshooting linux issues and stuff, DDG would never find the obscure answer in a forum but google would).
Anyways, ofc the goal wasn’t to end up back at google so now I’ve been using startpage for the last few months and it seems to work great with no issues.
Presearch. I don’t care for the crypto features. (I already got Monero anyway) but the concept of a decentralized search engine is interesting.
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Qwant. And occasionally Google and DuckDuckGo
Brave Search and Startpage.
ecosia.org It care about my privacy and It also plant Trees from ad revenue.
Me too, though unfortunately I systematically ignore search results with the ad mark, so it’s not really helpful…
Qwant for work and DDG for personal stuff
I am testing both for personal use right now, can you share your experience and how you came to the decision which to use for personal use and which for work?
Qwant has very similar search results to Google which I need for work. DDG is IMO more private so I use it for personal stuff.
Also Qwant has better results than DDG is languages other than English.
I need Google results, in my experience they are the best. That’s why I’m using startpage.com That’s the best alternative I have up to today
I currently use searx.org instance of SearXNG which for me works decently, and I can still use the ! searches of DuckDuckGo in it, just adding another !, like !!wikipedia
