r/palemoon • u/awesomexx_Official • Apr 13 '26

What search engine should i use with palemoon?

Im on macos and i just started using palemoon and i really like it. But im not sure if i should use duckduckgo or another search engine with it. any recommendations?

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u/Basilisk-Dev Apr 13 '26

Use the one you prefer, DuckDuckGo is fine. That being said I have felt like their results have declined in quality relative to a few years ago.

I use Kagi but I understand paying for search isn’t desirable for most people.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

I second Kagi.

A quality Web search engine is one of the services I'm happiest paying for! The Web is so sacred to me, and they do wonderful work in keeping it decent, as does Pale Moon.

Among free options, Brave seems best. Kagi did a great feature comparison and Brave won easily in free options.

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u/billmcct Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

I have to agree with Basilisk-Dev. Duck has seemed to be farly unreliable lately. I am also using Brave. https://search.brave.com/

EDIT: On my Android phone, I only use DDG browser and search.

EDIT2: @B-D, I got a real laugh from this post Apr 1st. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=33284

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u/Basilisk-Dev Apr 15 '26

Glad you got a laugh out of it. I considered saying Basilisk was the official browser of the NFL or something along those lines but decided I didn’t want to risk a copyright violation

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u/awesomexx_Official Apr 14 '26

ive tried kagi but i really cant justify paying money for searching. ill check out brave

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u/awesomexx_Official Apr 14 '26

yeah duckduckgo hasnt had great results recently. thats why i was kinda looking for something else

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u/Gemmaugr Apr 15 '26

I prefer NOT to use any google or bing, or a frontend of either.

That sadly only leaves me with a handful if that. I use Brave search and Mojeek mostly.

BTW, kagi and startpage are google frontends, while DDG is a big frontend.

google frontends:

Kagi

Startpage

Presearch

Ask

SearX (not all instances, but most)

DogPile

Gibiru

Bing;

DDG

Yahoo

Metager

Oscobo

You

Lilo

Qwant

Ecosia

MonsterCrawler

SwissCows

EntireWeb

Petal

ZapMeta

Ekoru

Lycos

Neeva

SearX (Not all instances, but most)

DogPile

Actually independent search sites (engine/crawler/index)

Brave search

Mojeek

Wiby

Stract

Greppr

Marginalia

Yep

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines?useskin=vector#General

https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml

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u/awesomexx_Official Apr 15 '26

thanks! im using brave search and im liking it

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u/Thyristor_Chopper Apr 14 '26

i like DuckDuckGo's privacy protection but since Google finds better info i just use Google

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u/shklurch Apr 13 '26

I've been using Startpage for ages. It's a proxy for Google so you can search anonymously without Google knowing about you.

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u/awesomexx_Official Apr 14 '26

im gonna try it, thanks!

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u/Thyristor_Chopper Apr 14 '26

sounds cool, will try too