I used google for most of my life, for the past couple months I’ve been using brave search, but I still end up using google often because google images is far better than brave search images. I’m also worried that maybe brave search isn’t the best choice. What would you guys recommend?

  • Marthirial@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 months ago

    I am paying for Kagi. Has worked well and some searched topics had been human curated so the answers are right there in the results. But it also does a good job with obscure searches, although it seems it tries to alter the meaning or context in order to show more results.

    Best feature is the ability to hide from the results shit sites like Reddit or Quora.

    • Syakaizin@lemm.ee
      1·
      4 months ago

      Same - I paid last year and it just expired, so I tried Brave Search, DDG and Startpage but they weren’t cutting it for me so I’ve just gone back to Kagi.

  • otterpop@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 months ago

    I’ve really been enjoying Kagi. They seem to have a pretty good privacy policy as well. However Searxng is probably the best for privacy since it’s self hosted.

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    Duckduckgo is the best one, you can also use Startpage andWoogle

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
      1·
      4 months ago

      I’ve jumped around to pretty much all search engines (except kagi) and I’ve settled on and been using duckduckgo for the longest duration out of all the alternatives

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Same I stopped using startpage after Google became horrible.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    I have used brave search which was really good I really liked the ai search although i moved away from it after seeing how bad google ai search was (saying things like its a good idea to eat rocks due to not being able to recognise satire) and I managed to get brave to do the same thing with a different onion article so i dont really trust any ai search now. At the moment I use searx it’s incredibly private especially if you are willing to self host (I am not) and you have so much customisation you can use any search index so you don’t have to worry about bad results.

    Qwant also seams really good although I haven’t tried it, same with ecosia especially if you like planting trees although I use an ad blocker so that doesn’t work for me.

    Imo there are so many great free browsers it’s not really worth paying for a browser.

    I also don’t recommend duck duck since it used to have a tracking deal with Microsoft. It doesn’t have it anymore but I think it’s enough to lose faith in it.

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        I don’t really see why this is relevant unless google or bing results are bad (and from my experience they are pretty good) since privacy focused search angines anonymize all search engine requests so you can’t be tracked by google or bing. Also that map really is outdated brave uses it’s own indexing now so it no longer relies on google.

  • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    SearXNG: https://github.com/searxng/searxng

    It enhances and respects privacy,
    is open source and self hostable,
    and queries multiple configurable search engines (google, bing, brave, duckduckgo, …)

    You can find a list of public hosted instances here:
    https://searx.space/

    However I prefer to slap an instance randomizer on top, so each of my queries goes through another public SearXNG instance, for more privacy, and mostly, to bypass rate-limiting after frequent queries.

    For this I use: