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I have been using Whoogle search for the last two months:

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

It is "A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine". Happy with the experience so far.

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If you don't want to self-host, another privacy-respecting metasearch engine is https://searx.me

And you can always use DuckDuckGo, which can anonymously search Google with "!g".

that is amazing and i will have that code on my machine soon. however for purposes of this discussion i’m interested in the best possible search results possible for myself as an individual. my question is more, has google personalized search to the point of diminishing returns. if I log out first, irrespective of surveillance, do i simply get better search results. i know it’s not the best results from an advertiser standpoint, so does that mean it’s not the best for me

> if I log out first, irrespective of surveillance, do i simply get better search results

Only you can answer that question, based on your own experience. "Better search results" is a very subjective measure, and means different things to different people.

> i’m interested in the best possible search results possible for myself as an individual

So you want Google's personalized results or not?

Just use another search engine if Google annoys you so much (e.g. DDG).

google seems to be the best search engine. google personalization seems to have the same blind spots as I do as an individual, so maybe i’m answering my own question here but I’d love more considered opinions than my own

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