Your guide to a new Search Engine (Reworked)

gmail is not a search engine.

I am missing YaCy, a search engine that is much more in the spirit of the FediVerse.

Leta has been nice so far aside from the blue flashbang I'm never prepared for. I pray for darkmode.

Swapped from DDGo after frustrations with the LLM in my searches. The article-bloat is gone too. Very nice.

Just checked out Swisscows and was greeted by a popup saying, "Swisscows is introducing a subscription model.".

So, that's a non-starter for me.

Daily reminder that

• Brave's CEO donates to homophobic organizations and
• Brave is connected to the BAT pay-to-surf scam

Don't use Brave.

Kagi has been by far the best search experience for me. It does cost some money but damn is it nice! Even has a feature to specifcially search only in fediverse. Also a plus supporting them considering they're bringing their Orion browser to Linux.

Which of these doesn't include LLM etc bullshit?

Ok maybe I'm too pedantic, but I've see this before and it really bothers me how inconsistent information is presented here.
Granted, the country flags are somewhat self-explanatory and we get a legend for E, S, and O.

But what do the grey symbols under Searxng and Metager mean? That They are metasearch engines? That info is already communicated by being in the corresponding box.

What is the dark circles under Quant, Ecosia, and Startpage? I don't see any section that specifically refers to those three.

The tie of the differently colored names to the "to note" section is also not immediately clear.

Am I missing something?

Kagi promises not to collect, but since it's paid all searches are tied to a account and a payment method.

Missing stract.com, it's like old school google before the ads. A little slow to update to latest web crawl, but much better content returned

SearXNG or Startpage

Metager has become a paid service since Yahoo doesn't allow them access to their results for free.