Ready to deGoogle your search?

[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.