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Try kagi.com (I have nothing to do with the company)

They are similar in feel to google, I think their results come from google as well as others (I say this having tried bing and ddg but going back to google because the results they returned were worse or at least not compatible with how I've learned to use google). They don't have any ads.

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Is that the one that requires a browser extension to participate in the beta? That's why I don't use them.

Brave Search, Searx, Metager, DDG, Presearch, Swisscows, Starpage... So many to choose from!

It doesn't require any special software to get in the beta. You sign up, get invited, log in and search.

I quite like it, but the price tag will not be justified if it's just a Google frontend. This is another universe in itself, but I'd much rather have them develop their own indexer.

Not sure why the sibling comment is flagged? O.o They actually already use their own index, it’s just tiny. They want to focus mainly on smaller sites with it, but the plan for "the future" is to have their own index be good enough to rely on for most searches.

Not flagged, just dead. Presumably the author deleted it.

Oh wow, thank you. I always thought comments were dead because they are flagged, I did not know deleting your posts turns them dead.

It doesn't. Dead comments are flagged or moderated or posted by a user who has been shadow-banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Not true:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I stand corrected, thanks.

They do have their own index, Teclis. You can use it independently: https://teclis.com/

The "non-commercial" lens in Kagi is mostly powered by Teclis, and the main SERPs include some non-commercial lens results mixed in.

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