• obbeel@lemmy.ml
      4·
      3 years ago

      Searx and Gigablast are FOSS. I find gigablast is good when you want to find location based stuff, but searx works well too. If you want location based (your location) things or to buy something at a price, duckduckgo and google are still the best. Searx will sometimes pull weird results, even though the results are different from instance to instance (Searx got many instances). It is worth mentioning that searx and gigablast got no ads, but duckduckgo ads aren’t very invasive as other search engines.

      I use searx for most things, but I do have to switch to google or duckduckgo for some things, something that didn’t happen with duckduckgo.

  • boi@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    SearX is great and is FOSS, and tou can run your own instance.

  • unnecessarily@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    Since you can never be fully certain whether or not a search provider is abiding by its privacy policy, I generally try to spread my searches out around as many search engines as possible to make it harder for any one of them to piece together a complete picture. DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Brave Search, Swisscows, MetaGer, a few Searx and Whoogle instances, and Startpage all make the list.