Part of the problem is that most of these privacy-protecting search engines are just the big search engines re-packaged; DuckDuckGo is Bing, and Startpage is Google. SearchXNG is just an aggregator, and so is Kagi. What we really need are some alternative engines that function as well as Google used to. I would be willing to pay for that, as relying on ads clearly doesn’t work.
DuckDuckGo=Bing is a misnomer - DDG uses a basket of search indexes excluding google, and I believe Bing’s percentage keeps shrinking (last I checked it was 15%)
Unfortunately, neither is anywhere close to how good Google used to be, unless they’ve improved in leaps and bounds since I last tried them. I just want to be able to use boolean search terms again, and the fact that most modern search engines don’t utilize them has me tearing my hair out.
Part of the problem is that most of these privacy-protecting search engines are just the big search engines re-packaged; DuckDuckGo is Bing, and Startpage is Google. SearchXNG is just an aggregator, and so is Kagi. What we really need are some alternative engines that function as well as Google used to. I would be willing to pay for that, as relying on ads clearly doesn’t work.
DuckDuckGo=Bing is a misnomer - DDG uses a basket of search indexes excluding google, and I believe Bing’s percentage keeps shrinking (last I checked it was 15%)
Mojeek and Qwant both have independent indexes but afaik have no paid teir
Unfortunately, neither is anywhere close to how good Google used to be, unless they’ve improved in leaps and bounds since I last tried them. I just want to be able to use boolean search terms again, and the fact that most modern search engines don’t utilize them has me tearing my hair out.
I know Ecosia relies on Bing and Google but i have found their search results is the best of any of the “privacy” focused search engines
Qwant is not available in all places and limits its reach.
Didn’t know that, I’ll give Startpage a try since for me DDG sucks