What are your favorite search engine alternatives? Ideally no ads or favored content, and with various useful filters
There’s the obvious suggestions like DuckDuckGo, but if you’re used to the (actual) results you get from Google, it’s worth checking out Mullvad Leta. This is a search engine that proxies the results of either Brave or Google, so you get their results without them tracking or advertising to you. This is the only way I use Google when doing text searches these days. Sometimes I still have to break it out to do image searches and stuff, as Leta only handles standard text, but it’s been handy as a way to divest from Google without giving up the benefits.
DDG was so good… Until they switched to Apple Maps. I do’t even use maps at all, but this bothered me a lot, as those money could have been spent in funding OSM.
There’s the obvious suggestions like DuckDuckGo, but if you’re used to the (actual) results you get from Google, it’s worth checking out Mullvad Leta. This is a search engine that proxies the results of either Brave or Google, so you get their results without them tracking or advertising to you. This is the only way I use Google when doing text searches these days. Sometimes I still have to break it out to do image searches and stuff, as Leta only handles standard text, but it’s been handy as a way to divest from Google without giving up the benefits.
DDG was so good… Until they switched to Apple Maps. I do’t even use maps at all, but this bothered me a lot, as those money could have been spent in funding OSM.
Thus, I switched to SearXNG.