Comment on: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
You're reading that incorrectly. I disapprove of the bubble effect.I specified I'm not interested in chabot because I'm looking for a search engine and some people tend to conflate the two. I prefer first hand information, hopefully filtered for spam and slop but not "tailored" by a bubble that is more often mistaken than not.
Comment on: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
If you don't mind paying and someone else having control over your search experience, Kagi is an option. Urkey (sp?) is another new alternative.If you just want a free search engine, Brave is probably the best index. Bonus points to Marginalia for finding the obscure things Brave doesn't surface.But if you want to go down the rabbit hole, it's easy to build your own metasearch engine and search several engines at once - an AI model can make one for you in a single night with just a small PHP script, if you have your own website / webost. In my case, the combination of Brave, Mojeek & Margi