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Which search engine should I use? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have used SearXNG for a while, but I switched to LibreX after the search engine started glitching. Recently, though, LibreX has stopped returning any results. I am currently on Mojeek, but the results aren't that great.

I have also tried Qwant, but I wasn't too keen on it. Startpage will be impractical, as I use a VPN and this engine often blocks me because of it. I don't want to use Brave Search for a number of reasons. MetaGer has too many important features behind its paywall. I'm not sure about DuckDuckGo, but I could use it if there was no other option.

Any suggestions, or am I being too picky?

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[–] Caravaggio@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t want to use Brave Search for a number of reasons.

Mind sharing? I'm curious because I switched to DDG several days ago, after a good while of using Brave. My reasons were:

defaulting to Moderate safe search every couple of days
inability to provide me with good results for simple '[word] wiktionary' queries
having to block some elements of their result templates manually, using their own browser's filtering feature (featured snippets, definitions etc)
poorer search results compared to what they were a year, two ago

Some people here mentioned Kagi and I liked it a lot when I was beta-testing it, but I will only start paying for using it when they introduce full support for Boolean operators, which most likely means never.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

I don't like Brave as a company. Brendan Eich is an arsehole, Brave Browser has had (minor, but numerous) controversies, their crypto stuff is off-putting, and now they're sticking their new AI into everything.