Ready to deGoogle your search?

[naerrischertuk@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota do you by any chance know some good alternatives to google scholar?

[stingrayvillacozumel@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota I like Ecosia from your list. It is nice to change search areas

[bentley_lucas@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Does any deGoogle, de Microsoft folk like any of these options?
• DuckDuckGo
• Good
• Aloha
• Firefox Focus
• SnowHaze

[pickadollen@mastodon.social]

@bentley_lucas @Tutanota DuckDuckGo is nice, but to my understanding is mostly (or was) a frontend for Bing similar as Startpage is for Google. Do think they have their own crawlers, how much of their results is their own crawlers and Bing don't know. Brave search is probably the biggest independent search engine index, apart from Google and Bing. Why tuta doesn't mention this is because of "reasons" I guess.

[karlggestd@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota
Qué bien posiciona mailchimp, no?

[kikebenlloch@mastodon.social]

@bentley_lucas I like DDG and have used it for many years. Firefox focus, occasional use, it's alright IMHO.

[cynical13@social.vivaldi.net]

@Tutanota

Several of your alternatives ALSO have AI summaries and/or agents included in their services.

How about some examples that don't include that particular "feature" set?

[sibshops@mastodon.online]

@Tutanota https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ deserves a mention, too.

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@Tutanota What's wrong with Kagi?

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@Tutanota What's wrong with Kagi?

[nommiesav@social.vivaldi.net]

@Tutanota personally i’m a brave search kinda girl.

independent index, no ties to google (unless you let it) or bing unlike most of these

ai is optional (you don’t have to add “-ai” every time, i switched it off once first use and never saw it again)

and it brings up the convert tool quickly when you search what something is in a different unit of measurement, like so (only SE other than google i know of that does that):

[post_reader@wehavecookies.social]

@Tutanota
Most of them (ecosia, startpage, searx, metager, etc.)
proxy google/bing search or both - aka metasearch engines.
Mojeek and brave seem to have own *proprietary* crawlers.
Didn't use Million Short as an offer to create an account makes me scratch my head.
A standalone option is distributed search engine called YaCy, but it's rather
not well packaged for linux.

[retrimental@mastodon.social]

@nommiesav @Tutanota

Yeah I was using Brave search very recently. I opted for it because as far as I can recall, they have their own crawlers/indexers or whatever they're called.

I switched recently to self-hosting SearXNG and although SearXNG doesn't have its own crawlers, I can still use Brave search results (and basically most other search engine results) that I want.

Admittedly though, I'm lazy and my solution isn't as polished as Brave.

[albertone@livellosegreto.it]

@naerrischerTuk
Semantic scholar is the closest alternative that I use, it is a nonprofit
@Tutanota

[jo4ted@mastodon.social]

@kotaro @Tutanota if I'm not mistaken searx.me is a public instance powered by SearXNG. So you don't have to host it yourself.