So over the past few years I’ve been removing Google from my life, slowly but surely. One thing I just can’t get rid of is the Google search engine. Everything out there is just glorified bing. Brave was pretty good but its riddle with AI and crypto. The search results are also not so great, especially with images. I also tried startpage but its so freaking slow, it drives me crazy. At this point I just use Google with the ‘Don’t track me google’ extension. Does anyone have any suggestions.
Kagi, you pay for it, but it’s extremely good.
There are Duckduckgo, Kagi and Qwant that are good imo
I’m building a platform called lynksearch.com that cuts through the Sponsored/Affiliate articles and generates answers for open-ended questions using millions of crowdsourced opinions from real users across Reddit and Youtube.
It’s less for factual questions but more so for finding recommendations. Check it out and lmk if you find it useful!
Actually I find that retiring Google Search is easy, there are options:
A classical search engine is search.brave.com
You could also try perplexity.ai and/or you.com, those are a mix of search engine with a LLM, they’re really good even within the free tier.
Brave was pretty good but its riddle with AI and crypto
The Browser (optionally)
But the browser and the search engine are separate products that are independent of each other. There is no reason you need to use the browser to use the search engine.
I can’t find a good search engine replacement for Google so I use theirs without ads by running this project https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
searX instances, work ok to me
Listen me, sir.
4get (I use 4get.ch but main instance is 4get.ca) is the master search engine. It does everything a search engine should.
SearXNG is a decent search engine and I worship it, but feels bulky.
Stract is a good search engine but no reason to use it as main.
at this point not even google is reliable
Searxng. For instance ooglester.com
I’m not sure why your Startpage would be slow, I’ve been using Startpage for almost a month now and at the most I can admit it is slowER than Google but hardly slow in general. Overall Startpage has been great in my experience.
I would recommend searx, it’s amazing
Yandex, ecosia & mojeek…
Wdym? Startpage is pretty darn fast for me
How is startpage slow? Been using it for like a 2 years and it loads really fast
Self host a searxng instance. I have one you can try at https://privatesearch.app/
ecosia and duckduckgo are alright
Ecosia
Ixquick
Startpage
DuckDuckGo
No matter how hard you try, there’s only two good alternatives in the search market Google & Bing. The other ones uses data from these two, or they are really bad. Is a duopolly, like the browsers duopolly, it don’t matter the alternatives, all of them are Chrome (Chromium) or Firefox.