I'd recommend Kagi if you don't mind paying. They have optional AI features, but they also have anti-AI features... Not sure how this community feels about Kagi but It works great and also let's you customize results and widgets, so you can disable ai summaries and image result boxes for example, and pin/raise/lower/block domains, or have custom 'lenses' that narrow search criteria: particularly useful for technical / reference searching
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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I second kagi.
thirded, couldn't be happier with it.
Fourthed. I'm a rotten cheapskate who pirates movies and wears thrift store clothes and mooches meals from friends, but I pay for Kagi and it's worth more than the price.
Do you have unlimited or starter? I feel like 300 searches a month is nothing. I’d be happy to pay $5 a month but $10 seems steep to me.
I would try the 300 and upgrade to unlimited if you hit the limit, personally.
I personally search over 20 times a day so I suggest using the free searches they give you then deciding whether the 10$ is worth it.
personally I mix using ddg with kagi for the "what's the name of that website again?" or "where's that place?" kind of searches that I do regularly and find I stay below the 300 searches easily. depends on your usage case ofc
Noai.ducduckgo is my go to
Same. I fallback to Startpage when duck isn't giving me results but that doesn't happen too often.
html.duckduckgo.com is even better imho
The former redirects to the latter. Any reason that's better than DuckDuckGo lite? The main difference i see is that the lite version relies less on CSS so i can use it in basically any browser.
I use Ecosia and Qwant. They are European services. Ecosia has AI button, but you don’t need to use it. Ecosia and Qwant have built a European search index, and will hopefully expand its usage through out this year.
Ecosia and Qwant have built a European search index
Did they build one each, or one together?
It's a joint venture by the two. Here's a blog post from last year: https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/
And, this is the webpage of the search index: https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/
Ah, nice. Thank you very much.
One together.
Noai.duckduckgo.com
I've been using startpage for about two years. It's okay. Not great but good enough that it handles 95% of my searches.