nostr:npub129hy4ks3znggpc53w2pc972pmjsh9yftesua6nudx7plfzyyeugsmny2hs I'm happy to use a self-hosted SearXNG instance.

Earlier on I would usually search on my meta-engine, and in that ~15-20% of the cases I couldn't find what I was looking for and I would fall back to Google.

Nowadays, when I don't find what I'm looking for on SearXNG, I may still fall back to Google - just to realize that I get even worse results, sponsored content and other SEO garbage.

My best suggestion is to use SearXNG or any other meta-engine. My instance pulls results from Google, DDG, Brave, Qwant, Bing, Startpage etc. If one of these engines decides to go down the enshittification road, I can just disable it from my settings and keep using the others.