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What search engines are you using ? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As the title says! My choice, for now, is Leta, directly from Mullvad. I really like because there are no ads by deafult, which is particular important since those ads usually lead to malware.

Otherwise, i like mojeek (same reason).

They both have a strong privacy policy and search results are good enough for me.

Leta: https://leta.mullvad.net/faq

Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy :)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

duckduckgo mostly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I fully switched to DDG last summer and it is totally fine for ~90% of my searches, except its image search is way worse than Google's.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kagi! Been using it for a year and I'm very happy with it. The lens feature helps me when I want to deep dive on something and the small web option feels sort of sweet to me hahah

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gladly paying for Kagi as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did not know Kagi. Thank you!

Edit: spelling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was an interesting post on Kagi a few days ago; with an alternative take on how it operates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, the man is truly unhinged

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Kagi. I'm happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

searx.neocities.org

It will automatically redirect to a random SearX instance, which is nice because they can keep track of which ones are active so I don’t have to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its pretty nice but sometimes it directs to a Thai (or other language) instance and while it doesn't matter for the immediate search results it can be annoying when you wanted to check images for example.

Doesn't mean not to use it but it surprised me a couple times so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My guess is those instances are misconfigured, didn't set their language correctly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I yell into the void until someone brings me an answer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

SearXNG

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For anyone wondering about Leta it proxies Google searches. Available only to Mullvad users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi! Now Leta seems to proxi also Brave searches!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I was just going off the linked FAQ. I don't use Mullvad so I was curious, thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/, just in case anyone doesn't want to append the y :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Uh, really sorry for that! I will correct my typo! :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Qwant but sometimes DuckDuckGo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yandex

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use SearXNG and Startpage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Startpage is really nice. I use it when sites blocks VPN users like me since i can proxy every page i visit through them!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use Duckduckgo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brave search + DuckDuckGo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Duck Duck Go with a searx fallback