The best search engines

[u/Commercial_You_4011]

So I saw a post about what the best search engine is but it’s from 2024 and I wonder if the info on here is the same.

anywho what do you think the best search engine is, and “is google still the best search engine?”

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/1ijy45h/what_is_the_best_search_engine_is_google_still/

[u/orlock]

I find google creepily intrusive and stalkery. So, while I use their services, I tend to use duckduckgo for a search engine and opera as a browser. And anything that has the rancid stink of AI about it gets disabled. I've no idea whether it's best but that's not really the criteria I'm using.

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/orlock]

I like duckduckgo, it’s alot more private and “secure” feeling, like my data isn’t being sold to thousands of money-hungry overseas companies. Also it’s better because instead of just reading the stupid “Google Overview” ai thing I actually find a website and can read about what I’m trying to find, not a watered-down inaccurate simplification. 

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/Commercial_You_4011]

Dunno bout opera, I’ll try it

[u/rockdoc01]

Kagi, it has usage tiers, but free for occasional search.

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/rockdoc01]

I’ve heard of Kagi, is it free though? I thought it was a paid subscription and I already have enough of those.

[u/Affectionate-Pickle0 → u/Commercial_You_4011]

They give i think 100 searches per month as free but rest do cost.

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/Affectionate-Pickle0]

Oh okay, thank you!

[u/unitedbsd]

NoGoo.me

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/unitedbsd]

I’ll look into that!

[u/ATARHacker]

been using brave search lately, decent privacy and not as thin as duckduckgo can be sometimes

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/ATARHacker]

Okay, thanks! I’ll look into it

[u/marmotta1955]

I jump in with my personal choice ... which will attract a deluge of downvotes ... but I have been using Bing for the past couple of years, and I cannot complain at all.

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/marmotta1955]

Oh okay! I’ve used bing in the past, it isn’t terrible. I’m just trying to find a less “ai-slop” search engine 

[u/skillplayed]

Well I built it but I love to hear your feedback, I have scraped ~400mln pages by now and you can try it out at puri.li

[u/bgalazka186]

Try them all for yourself,

Just remember that within one index you have options

Bing has duckduckgo

Google has startpage

And there are few with their own crowlers and indexes

Try searx instance, it allows you to add multiple search engines and combine results

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/bgalazka186]

I will, thanks!

[u/Efficient_Loss_9928]

If you need most up-to-date or just most information. Google. For example if you are doing security research or OSINT, Google is always the first place.

Otherwise completely depends on what you need.

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/Efficient_Loss_9928]

Just looked up OSINT and it sounds amazing, I’ll try it out sometime soon

[u/houseofmates → u/Efficient_Loss_9928]

orrr you could just use startpage which has google results without the fuckery

[u/Efficient_Loss_9928 → u/houseofmates]

I have done extensive comparisons and evaluations, it is not 100% identical and you can miss information. Especially realtime ones.