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I bit the bullet and I'm using DuckDuckGo as default.

Every time the results will be poor I add !g to the search and DuckDuckGo sends me to google. (or !guk for google uk, !so for stackoverflow, !wes for spanish wikipedia, !amde for german amazon, and so on)

It's easy to do, and I enjoy the privacy for all the other searches.

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DuckDuckGo is ok, I don't know if it's me but I feel like it's getting worse, for a period there I was hardly resorting to use "bags".

It's kind of interesting that no one can seem to build a really great privacy focused search engine. I'd pay for a product like Google but that respected my privacy. In fact, I'd gladly pay for it over some of the other subscriptions I pay for.

Maybe a hole in the market?

Give Searx a look, for example at https://searx.me , but there's many other public instances running, because -- unlike DDG -- it's fully free software, https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/

Of course the level of privacy is determined by whoever is hosting it, but at least there's a choice there.

Did not know !g trick it is pretty awesome. Whenever I hit some unrelated results, I used to open a new tab and query the same thing in Google. My life just got easier.

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