I tend to use DuckDuckGo most of the time, but its quality has collapsed considerably. Google is terrible now and only worth it for reverse image search. I haven’t tried Brave much and SearX-NG was a pain to set up for being a de-facto Google and Bing wrapper. There’s Kagi but I don’t really have $120/yr for a search engine, nor do I want to deal with how they handle logins and session management.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know. Yandex maybe? It does tend to prioritize Russian results a bit higher than any western search engine but so long as you’re using the English site it seems okay when I’ve tried using it. I think the whole web is poisoned with AI SEO slop and we’re not likely to ever go back. Going forward if you want info you’ll have to pay for premium search, for an AI assistant to search for you, etc. Knowledge is being gated behind a paywall of frustration and time-wasting.