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What search engines do you use?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4448974

I’ve recently started using a self hosted SearXNG instance but I’m still using the search engines enabled by default (google, duckduckgo and qwant). What search engines do you have enabled or which ones do you feel you’ve gotten the best results with?

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banazir@lemmy.ml
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I’ve stuck with DuckDuckGo for years. It’s mostly gotten pretty good if you search in English. Other languages can be iffy.

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rizoid@midwest.social
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I can’t be bothered to self host a search engine. I just stick to duck duck go and I’ve tried some whoogle instances but I just prefer ddg at this point.

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ccf@lemmy.world
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SearXNG, it was fairly easy to get used to coming from duckduckgo because !! uses the same !bang search as ddg. (honestly !bang searches were the only thing keeping me on ddg)

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Fisch@lemmy.mlOP
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I’m already using SearXNG. The point of my question is to find out what search engines I should enable in it.

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ccf@lemmy.world
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oh sorry, I guess my reading comprehension skills are a bit subpar

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throwawayish@lemmy.ml
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DuckDuckGO for the bangs, with a custom !bang made for my favorite SearXNG instance; on which most of my ‘googling’ actually happens.

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shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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I am trying Kagi but use ddg quite often too.

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