Honestly someone should spin up a small web index. You can isolate yourself to a nice corner of the Internet and ignore the rest of the toxic mess.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Who uses bing?
AFAIK there are only like 4 search engines in the world:
- Bing
- Yahoo
- Yandex
Virtually every search site uses one or a combination of these.
Kagi has its own search engine and internal web indexing:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html#search-sources
There are no Chinese search engines?
pretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo "alliance thing" (can't remember what it's officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).
Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is...yeah.
Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they're all the same except with those two you're not going to get the AI slop or ads.
my self hosted surprise of last year was a searxng container. i will never go back!!
DuckDuckGo users?
Pretty much every other search engine uses as it as their only or supplemental source as do all metasearch engines.