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 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.