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 What search engine do you use? 
#AskNostr #Plebchain  
 Startpage 
 DuckDuckGo 
 You tried brave search?  
 No 
 Do it! It's better and safer. No tracking at all. 

Search.brave.com 
 I don't like the results. 
 SearXNG 
 I host my own searxng.  
 Cool, I tried that once. Use Brave search now 
 It seemed cool but  never useful. I had to go back to DDG because they are TOR friendly 
 Duck duck go isn't private, it's owned by Microsoft basically.  
 None of them are really private and censor shit. All are pozzed.  
 That's why an aggregator like Searx is best imo.  
 When it works 
 I said this in another reply, but I'll just reiterate. When I was running a public instance, it definitely sucked and didn't work. But I've had pretty much zero issues hosting a private instance. 
 I host it, but I haven't used it much. How is it? 
 I prefer it. It sucked when I was running a public instance because I was always getting DDoSed and rate limited So it was, for all intents and purposes, kind of useless.

But hosting a private instance, I haven't really had an issue with rate limiting and it's the only search engine I use now. I like to have that extra layer of privacy. And it's kind of neat to see the aggregated results of multiple different search engines. 
 I didn't know it did that. I should try it again. 
 Presearch or Brave.  
 Nice, I like Brave. 
 ecosia unless i really cant fuck around 
 but something is already drastically wrong if i cant fuck around inconveniencing myself while trees are also allegedly planted as i do so

so
yea

ecosia 
 Modern with Brave as a fallback. 
 MOJEEK* with Brave as a fallback. 
 Whoogle on Umbrel. 
 DuckDuckGo, Startpage when I need more search results (in DuckDuckGo you can write !s in front of you query and it automatically searches through Startpage).