What are your favorite search engine alternatives? Ideally no ads or favored content, and with various useful filters
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I run SearxNG from home. It's a meta-search engine and searches Google, Yahoo, DDG, Bing, and others and combines the results.
While it still uses Google as one of its sources, it doesn't take any liberties, doesn't "suggest" anything to me, doesnt' have any AI summaries, etc.
Yep, amazing tool. I use my own instance.
I tried that recently and just clicked on a random instance and was happy with the results. However, I don’t know what search instances are most reliable in terms of giving the most relevant and unbiased results and also being online when I’d want to use it.
I used to run a public instance and I can assure you that if the maintainer doesn't tamper with it (which is very unlikely to happen), the only "bias" you would get is the bias from the upstream engines.
Go to https://searx.space/ and look for the parameters of each public instance. Most of them are "vanilla" ones.
Yeah, I'm not sure about the hosted/public ones and how reliable/performant they may be. Most people I know just run it themselves.
If you ever wanted to get into self-hosting, setting up SearxNG would be a good and pretty easy to get started.