I have used DuckDuckGo for a long time, but the results seem to follow an agenda instead of just showing "what is" on the web, and leave me to use my own judgement.
What do you use? Or do you even use an Search Engine for most part since AI is getting increasingly better?
Any "search" controlled by a so-called "tech" company has a bias in favour of advertising services.
To get an idea of what is actually on the web, take a look at the .com zone file. An enormous percentage of websites are unreachable via search engine. This does not mean they have no value, it only means they have no value to the sale of advertising services, e.g., they are not popular. Hence search engines are biased against listing them in results.
And that is not a knock on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Qwant, etc
It is a fact - every search engine is making some kind of decision about `"what is" on the web`: they have their own crawling cycles, internal rankings, ability to reach content, etc
I use Qwant most often on my personal MacBooks
Bing on my iPhone and iPad
DDG on my wife's iPhone and iPad
Google at work (because we are defaulted to Chrome with limited ability to change defaults)
Do they all return "the same" results? More-or-less ... ish
You could run something like the meta search engine searX yourself, and give it the list of other search engines to hit and then return results to you (I did for a little while ... but decided it was not yielding better enough results (for me) to keep going vs just hitting the underlying engines
Limited ability to change Chromes' settings at work? Sounds fancy :P
Java? Cobol? :P
no - it's Splunk :)