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I'm trying to degoogle. I've heard good things about DuckDuckGo and I've been using it for the past few weeks and it's pretty solid. But I'm just wondering what the Lemmy/Piefed community prefer for a search engine.

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Qwant/Ecosia.

Used to use Kagi (paid search engine, if you don't know it) which was truly remarkable and well worth its cost, at least in my eyes. But, as a EU citizen, last year US shit show, made me realize I'd better rely less on US-based tech. So...

[–] catdog@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Agreed. If anyone knows about an EU (or allies) search engine with a business model that's not strictly based on advertising, let us know.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm with Qwant for the moment.

I used to use Kagi.

I used to use DDG before that.

I don't really have any complaints about any of these.

I'm trying to get better at using bangs to search on the sites I'm specifically looking for.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just curious, what made you change from Kagi?

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 19 hours ago

The CEO said some stuff.

IIRC a blogger said something unfavourable and he went thermo nuclear. Not that big a deal.

At the time though it seemed like the alternatives were just as good.