AndiSearch – The best Google Replacement I've Tried

I've been impressed with AndiSearch so far. I use a mix of Google and DDG and this seems to do a great job at search relevancy. I'm still hesitant on a few things before making this my default search engine but I'm really excited to see where AndiSearch goes.

- How does it handle privacy concerns? Personal information collection, tracker-blocking, etc.

- Technical search. Google isn't perfect at this either, but sometimes I want to search for a specific piece of code/error message and resort to appending "site:stackoverflow.com" to Google. But this limits my search results to SO. It seems like the search input for this kind of thing is pretty different than regular, "conversational" search and there's a need for a tech-specific search engine that caters towards code searching/technical string parsing.

- Not a huge fan of the "conversational" UI. I see "Assistant Mode" in the menu but I can't seem to disable it. Maybe I'm missing something. I do like the simplicity of having just a free-form search bar. There's a higher bar of entry for use if I have to learn how to interact with the search bot.

I've tried AndiSearch over the last several days since seeing it mentioned in an HN discussion. I've tried this search engine with a great variety of search terms, technical, bland, obscure, common and it performs better than DDG and as well or better than Google. As a plus bonus, there is an option to return search results in HN formatting, which I find incredibly easy to parse.

Note: This was an unsolicited post. I am just really impressed with this engine.