I have used SearXNG for a while, but I switched to LibreX after the search engine started glitching. Recently, though, LibreX has stopped returning any results. I am currently on Mojeek, but the results aren’t that great.

I have also tried Qwant, but I wasn’t too keen on it. Startpage will be impractical, as I use a VPN and this engine often blocks me because of it. I don’t want to use Brave Search for a number of reasons. MetaGer has too many important features behind its paywall. I’m not sure about DuckDuckGo, but I could use it if there was no other option.

Any suggestions, or am I being too picky?

  • ses hat@lemmy.ml
    36·
    10 months ago

    Maybe some will dislike , but i use yandex, i don’t know why, but i get good results. I prefer to give them my info and not google

    • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      Definitely not. Never mind “out of the frying pan, into the fire”; for me, this is “out of the lake, into the fire”.

      Using Yandex would involve giving my personal data to Russia. The possibility of my data falling into the wrong hands is the main reason I am looking for a private search engine; I’m certainly not then about to just walk up to the wrong hands and say “here you go”. Not to mention the censorship.

      Besides, I’ve blacklisted the .ru, .su, and .рф, .москва, and .yandex TLDs in NextDNS.

      • ses hat@lemmy.ml
        36·
        10 months ago

        Well i am far far from Russia so i don’t care, it can’t be worst compared to google. I don’t believe too much in the real privacy, one way or another 3 letter agencies will get the info.