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End of last year, I made a page to compare alternative search engines:

https://www.gnod.com/search/

You can switch on Ecosia when you click on "Select Engines".

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You may want to consider adding Mojeek since it does its own crawling (as opposed to the numerous metas using Bing data as per searchenginemap.com)

Disclosure, I work there

Ok, added.

I show a short info about each engine. What would be a good info line for Mojeek? What makes it unique?

Thank you, appreciated. It was/is the world's first general search engine with a no tracking privacy policy.

Hmm.. since every company promises a focus on privacy, isn't the bigger differentiator for the user that you run your own crawler? Do you use only your own crawling data?

Most definitely though Mojeek was the first on that front and yes, the search index is entirely from crawling the web independently. UK based. Our Twitter handle is very responsive if you ever need further info.

Awesome. I will put "Independent search engine operated in the UK" then.

Thanks for the information. Going to give Mojeek a try.

The styling does not seem to properly handle mobile. I get clipped content on the start page and horizontal scroll on the search results.

Thank you for the feedback. I tried to reproduce but could not. I'd be grateful if you could use the feedback button at the bottom of the search results as it may be result-specific wrt any horizontal scroll.

A directory of search "engines":

https://twitter.com/SearchEngineMap/lists

Who uses what:

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

https://www.gnod.com/search/

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