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Which alternative search engines do you use? (lemmy.ml)

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Since Internet search has and will change, which search engines do you use successfully, and what are their advantages?

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[–] Code_a 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use a private SearxNg instance that is self hosted on my home server.

It draws results from multiple search engines that you can choose from: DDG, Bing, brave, start page, Wikipedia and many more.

It is easily deployed using docker containers. Being self hosted it's pretty quick. Only slowed slightly by making simultaneous queries to multiple search engines.

[–] Ricotyl 2 points 1 year ago

I use searxng as well but a public instance. Tried kagis free trial though and it was very good. Trying to decide between the two now.