• lemmesay
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      11 months ago

      tons of alternatives.
      search engines with independent indexes(i.e., not beholden to any big search engine):

      • mojeek
      • brave search(semi independent)
      • kagi(semi independent)

      meta-search engines(gets results from other search engines):

      • startpage(google)
      • duckduckgo(bing)
      • qwant(bing)
      • swisscows(bing)
      • metager(multiple sources)
      • searx(ng)(multiple sources, configurable by user)

      I’m still missing a ton but this should give you an idea.

      for more, see this interactive graph, or this Wikipedia list which includes other niche types of search engines as well.

      I personally use mojeek(because of their independent index) with duckduckgo as a fallback.