Alternative Search Engines

[TheFrugalGamer]

*phew* that "digdeeper" search engine expert really reveals their bias a little ways down. Apparently search engines hide "the truth" in favour of misinfo-debunking sites and pointing out that conspiracy theories are not actually factual.

Makes me wonder how they evaluate the accuracy of anything...

Yeah, DigDeeper and the sites that it links to have some pretty nasty views, including denial of certain terrible historical events that took place in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Because of that, they often have useful info about alternative internet sources and privacy issues, just for vastly different reasons than most.

They are linked to frequently because of the references they have about browsers and how privacy respecting they are (or aren't). Which is fine, I just feel like it should come with a caveat.

While I'm here, here are a couple of others that haven't been mentioned yet:
http://www.oldgamesfinder.com/ - Search engine just for older games. I like the idea of specialized search engines like this, just geared towards finding one type of thing. I wish there were more.
https://metager.org/ - General purpose and run by a non-profit organization. I don't have much experience with this one.
https://searchengine.party/ - I think this was posted elsewhere on this forum maybe? It's a really great table that compares different search engines and their features

[georgemoody]

i too use SearxNG (envs' instance to be specific). amazing for text searches, not so much for image results, but i haven't dared to touch the settings so maybe the defaults aren't the best.
while looking for another search engine that advertised hand-picked results (and looked quite old, perhaps not intentionally) i found this fairly extensive article by the one and only Seirdy that lists a whole bunch of engines to look through.

[grubbyfox]

I like Startpage and DDG. I use Startpage as a main, DDG as an option, but I use google if I need something specific that those other two cannot find, or cannot help me with. Especially in non-english, they are not that good yet. But I notice DDG has greatly improved these last years with the non-english searches.

[prismatic]

searxng, presearch, and marginalia are the only search engines i really use these days if google gives nothing of value (which is happening increasingly, sadly). because my searches these days are looking for little active communities like this, more "smaller" search engines have been proving to be more beneficial than the larger ones.

[zj]

I use Ecosia, as I am a sustainability nerd XD. I also use their browser on mobile, as it has a built-in adblocker. I've dabbled in duckduckgo(good cause, awful name lol) and startpage(used to be good, bought by an advertising company and has many ads now)