I live in a country which uses a language I don’t speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).
DuckDuckGo, if that doesn’t work then I go to Startpage.
DDG almost 100% of the time.
DuckDuckGo always
I use DDG pretty exclusively. I’ve never had issues with it, I set it as default and didn’t think about it after that
Big fan of DuckDuckGo and Startpage. Brave Search is also a fine choice, as well.
Nothing compares to DuckDuckGo with bangs, which let you change over to any other search engine with two or three characters. I usually use !g (Google), !w (Wikipedia) and !aw (ArchWiki).
Holy shit! I think you just changed my life!
I use DDG and im pretty happy with it. I now pretty much only use google if i need to find working hours and location of a store on google maps, as DDG doesnt have that information as obviously available
Ecosia, but I need to setup a SearXNG instance sometime.
DuckDuckGo is great, I also switched to Brave Search a couple months ago. The results aren’t as good, but I like how it’s independently indexed.
I’m using Startpage.com (can set the location - I also have the problem that I use a VPN and keep getting not the language I want. IDK how to make it stick though), and Kagi paid for a bit now.
I use both startpage and duckduckgo, I use different browsers for different uses. For example: duckduckgo browser for work/professional use, mull for social media, tor for general browsing, I also recently started using MySudo for the same purposes with it’s built in browsers
DuckDuckGo 95% of the time, Google if I’m having trouble finding something.
Ddg, brave and startpage
I used to use startpage, but I’ve recently switched to using random SearXNG instances with libredirect. It’s pretty good results wise and means I’m not dependant on just one entity providing my results.
I use DDG on desktop and Google on mobile. Unfortunately Google still has some conveniences that I can’t give up just yet.