(In your opinion)
I’m using DDG, but I’m not satisfied with it. The quality of answers is subpar and I find myself switching to google or LLMs when I’m researching some things where community opinion matter (for some reason reddit and forums are undervalued by DDG algorithm).
I could try daily driving alternatives, but I know I will be biased and it will noticably slow down my workflows.
ecosia seemed to work slightly better than ddg for me recently, but there’s some controversies regarding their greenwashing and union busting
qwant seems to be pretty good but they geoblock specific countries including mine. it works through a vpn tho
startpage is just google
etools.ch is quite nice, even works without javascript but somehow they’re not so popular…
yandex is decent quality wise, but i get endless captchas from them for some reason