It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

  • DolphinMath@slrpnk.netEnglish
    193·
    10 months ago

    Here are some options I use in my rotation.

    Brave Search (skip the browser)

    Mojeek

    Qwant (French)

    Yandex (Russian)

    Mullvad Leta (Mullvad VPN subscription required)

    MetaGer (German meta search)

    Startpage (Private Google results)

    DuckDuckGo (Private Bing results)

    SearXNG and similar self hosted options are awesome, but I’ve found them unreliable.

    Be skeptical of Kagi… It’s promoted pretty heavily around here for something that’s not FOSS.

    • cheribbit@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      THANK YOU for mentioning startpage! I have not heard of them but I haven’t liked using DDG very much so I’ve begrudgingly using google in private mode (and then I always forget to switch back and forth)