I’ve been happy with Kagi. Worth the subscription.
DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia are the two big ones that tend to come up in these kind of questions, although there’s a handful of smaller search platforms out there as well. Bing is even worse than Google at this point. If I recall correctly Ecosia uses a custom search algorithm but still relies mostly on Google’s index at this time, DuckDuckGo is entirely independent.
duckduckgo uses bing doesn’t it? the results seem mostly identical to me
If I recall correctly it queries the Bing API among other niche sources for indexing and acts as a proxy for ad purposes, so while there’s a lot of Bing results, it’s not one-to-one. Unless they changed things recently, it’s possible I missed a press release.
I’ve been using Kagi as well to good success. I just wish I could pay for just the search portion and fully disable the assistant, but at least it’s optional
I host searXNG on my home server. It’s heaven. I get better results Google.
There’s other search engines that are less Ai heavy.
Or you could go with SearXNG
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for the past several years.
I’ve been using kagi and even replaced the default search on my iPhone with it. Works great
I quit Google. No longer use them for search, email, drive, or docs. They infested everything with AI and they bend the knee to fascists. I’m done.
I use duck duck go. Google is tech bro trash
Duckduckgo has a problem where you used to be able to select no location and now that defaults to your real one.
I want non geolocation results.
doesn’t seem very popular but ive been using etools.ch lately and it’s decent. it also works without javascript
Duck Duck Go is my default, but increasingly I use the Wikipedia app, because usually I’m looking for detailed information, and it’s a cut-to-the-chase option.
Google is garbage. It’s a complaint I’ve had for quite a while now. It used to be good at searching and obeying modifiers (-, “quotes” and the like). It would give you tens of pages of results and the result you wanted would almost always be on the first page. Now all it does is give you, in order: AI results that are incomplete or wrong, the best monetized youtube results, sponsored results, and then shitty SEO site results, and you’ll be lucky if any of that contains what you’re looking for. So you try “-“ to eliminate some garbage, but google takes that as incentive to offer you even more of what you don’t want. Then you try “search term” in quotes to be specific, and google offers zero results. Like in the billions of web pages that exist, nobody has ever written or discussed the thing you’re looking for? You get zero because it isn’t monetized or something.
Google is no longer a search engine, it’s an ad-server returning profitably monetized web pages.
If you can selfhost I’ve gotten degoog setup and enjoy using it.
Google seems hell-bent on AI; DuckDuckGo lets you easily disable AI search. Try it out.
They provide this handy url as well: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
Duckduckgo is just bing search
While I believe most of their results originate from Bing, according to their Wikipedia page they have used over 400 sources including Bing, Yahoo, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler. And even if 100% of their results were from Bing, saying it’s “just bing search” is very misleading.
Oh they’re planning to replace the standard link view with AI overview in general :3 source
There’re quite a few alternative search engines; I personally use duckduckgo, but startpage is also good, I hear, I’ve been trying it out in cases where ddg doesn’t get my desired results :3. There’s also searXNG which is more technical, but quite good in terms of fetching results from a bunch of stuff, and a lot of people I know swear by kagi, but that one is a paid service. Those are the main “big” ones I see around. Of course they’re by far not the only ones
Going to pop in with a vote for Kagi. They are paid, but they also run their own index so they don’t use Google at all. Well worth it.
Bing is still worse. Today I searched Rufus on Bing.
The website of the project wasn’t even on the first page of the results.That’s odd, the entire first page of results is about the software when I just searched on Bing. The official site was the top result.
