Because I’ve fallen for their privacy focused marketing strategy and I don’t know about any other alternatives.
you can mimic that functionality in Firefox-based browsers by adding bookmarks with search keywords (e.g. if you create a bookmark with the URL
https://piped.video/results?search_query=%sand the keywordyt, submittingyt some videoin the URL/search bar will search for “some video” on piped.video)they also provide a native onion endpoint which can be nice.
Duckduckgo. Not for the privacy concerns, I believe that about as far as I can spit, but becaues I really like their bangs system. A lot of them have become very second nature for me at this point.
Also ducks are cute.
If I am searching something in Chinese I try to use baidu, but my actual chinese level is not that great. Working on it.
I use the duck duck go browser because of how lightweight it is, so that.
Ecosia because trees
I’d like to use SearXNG instances but they don’t seem to be reliable enough, so I use Yandex to annoy the libs (bonus that they don’t block Lemmygrad results from naturally appearing)
Why Yandex particularly?
Mostly because they’re based in Russia to be honest so they don’t filter out “Russian propaganda”
I know they’re tracking though. I’ll happily switch if I could find an engine that doesn’t track and is reliable.
mostly startpage.com and qwant.com…anything to avoid using google directly
Same, been using Startpage with good results for years now
various SearXNG instances (I don’t trust them all to be private, but some will be) and occasionally DuckDuckGo (because it’s the default in Tor Browser)
I hope everyone here knows that DDG is censoring it’s search results https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-privacy-oops so people’d rather use yandex instead of this shit
DDG censors us too, that’s why I suggested Yandex
Isn’t Yandex shit with privacy though
Self-hosted SearXNG only accessible on my local network. DuckDuck Go if I have to use anything else.
How is the performance?
Loading images is a little slow because I use the image proxy option. Text search is fine and gives me similar results to anything else because I only pull from Google and DDG. The results are ‘worse’ in that I’m not getting targeted stuff at the top of the page that might be relevant to my query, but better in that I know if I search one thing, its less likely to give me something completely different.
Searxng when I can. At the very least it proxies other search engines and helps a bit with the censoring of various results.
I’ve just been using DuckDuckGo since Google went to shit
I’m more often finding myself searching specific websites than using a web wide search engine these days, but when I need to it’s generally DDG Lite.
First SearXNG, now 4get, it scrapes from Yandex as well
Google. I have been using it since my birth.
