I live in a country which uses a language I don’t speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).
DuckDuckGo, if that doesn’t work then I go to Startpage.
DuckDuckGo always
DDG almost 100% of the time.
I use DDG pretty exclusively. I’ve never had issues with it, I set it as default and didn’t think about it after that
I use both startpage and duckduckgo, I use different browsers for different uses. For example: duckduckgo browser for work/professional use, mull for social media, tor for general browsing, I also recently started using MySudo for the same purposes with it’s built in browsers
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+1 for Kagi.com, been using it for a long while, it rocks and is definitely worth paying for.
Searxng (searx.be) / startpage
Nothing compares to DuckDuckGo with bangs, which let you change over to any other search engine with two or three characters. I usually use !g (Google), !w (Wikipedia) and !aw (ArchWiki).
Holy shit! I think you just changed my life!
DuckDuckGo is great, I also switched to Brave Search a couple months ago. The results aren’t as good, but I like how it’s independently indexed.
I use Startpage, a privacy focused search engine which uses Google powerful search engine but without sending the actual data to them. The result are pretty good. You can change both the language and region in the settings. Bad part of Startpage is it is a for profit company (some advertising will be displayed using past search history only)
I use ublock origin and block the ads
Ecosia, but I need to setup a SearXNG instance sometime.
Big fan of DuckDuckGo and Startpage. Brave Search is also a fine choice, as well.
Ddg, brave and startpage
I’m using Startpage.com (can set the location - I also have the problem that I use a VPN and keep getting not the language I want. IDK how to make it stick though), and Kagi paid for a bit now.
I use one of the searxng instances or startpage.com