• lemmesay
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    1 year 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.