Depending on your appetite for self-hosting, you could try searx, searxng, 4get, and/or Yacy. I copied the below from another comment I made earlier today as it relates to those engines:
myself lately, and they can all use DDG. Being able to get specialized searches sent to the appropriate engine automatically or being able to choose the engine(s) manually is really nice. But they don’t have their own web crawler.
I’m starting to look into Yacy - which is supported by Searx - as a means to add a p2p web crawler and index under my control to the mix.
Me too. I’m hoping Brave Search can improve and bring more competition, but right now it’s about as bad as Google, and seems to be getting worse, not better.
Even more reason to continue not using their search.
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i second duckduckgo
Duckduckgo source their search queries to bing and yahoo.
Their sources:
As per their website, queries are largely sourced from bing
So they are a metacrawler that has additional first party crawlers? That’s actually pretty neat.
Searx, or if you need Google results but proxied use Startpage.
Depending on your appetite for self-hosting, you could try searx, searxng, 4get, and/or Yacy. I copied the below from another comment I made earlier today as it relates to those engines:
I’ve been using a combo of
myself lately, and they can all use DDG. Being able to get specialized searches sent to the appropriate engine automatically or being able to choose the engine(s) manually is really nice. But they don’t have their own web crawler.
I’m starting to look into Yacy - which is supported by Searx - as a means to add a p2p web crawler and index under my control to the mix.
Me too. I’m hoping Brave Search can improve and bring more competition, but right now it’s about as bad as Google, and seems to be getting worse, not better.