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.
I use DDG. It’s sufficient for me, and I never use
!ganymore because I quickly realised that doing!gfor poor DDG results got me even worse Google results. The DDG results are getting worse yeah, but it’s still usable for me