Which Search Engine do you use and find the most useful to provide you the results that you expect?

For me:

I use most of the time Kagi, a paid meta search engine that combines the search results of Google, Mojeek and Yandex altogether (the best world of all three search engine crawlers).

But I am also using Yandex, Mojeek or Brave Search if I want to use their search crawler individually (to fetch unique queries).

What I am using most of the time:

1. Kagi (The best for general use)

2. Brave Search (good)

3. Yandex (especially good for niche searches in tech topics or 🏴‍☠️🦜 or blocked topics on Google. Feeling like the old Google Search Engine almostly)

4. Mojeek (uncensored unbiased sources [in my opinion])

5. Google (a shopping search engine to find products to buy, nothing more)

I can't use duckduckgo anymore because every search I make seems to turn up a wall of AI slop. It was bad enough when it was just blog posts copying and pasting each other, but since the proliferation of LLM's it's getting impossible to get to legitimate resources through duckduckgo.

Are there any search engines out there with a decent AI filter? I don't care about the LLM summary response, that is easy to scroll past. I want to be able to filter AI blog posts out of my search results.

Exactly like its described... we built it, made it free, no sign up required, and every use improves the AI.

Feedback is all we ask for, either here or on the site.

Thanks

I’ve been digging into how search engines actually discover and process backlinks, and it made me curious how other people monitor that process.

When a new backlink goes live, a few different things are happening behind the scenes:

• The page linking to you needs to be crawled
• The link needs to be detected and associated with your site
• The change eventually gets reflected in search tools or indexes

What I’ve noticed is that the timing can vary a lot depending on the platform you’re looking at. Sometimes a backlink appears in search engine tools fairly quickly, and other times it takes days or even weeks.

Because of that, I started testing a few backlink monitoring tools just to see how quickly they detect link changes compared to what eventually shows up in search engine data.

One tool I’ve been experimenting with recently is Linkwatcher, which focuses specifically on monitoring when links appear, disappear, or change on a page. It got me thinking about how different tools approach link discovery versus how search engines actually crawl and update their indexes.

I’m curious how others here handle this.

Do you mainly rely on search engine tools themselves to monitor backlinks, or do you use separate monitoring tools to catch changes earlier?

Also interested to hear if people have noticed big differences in how quickly search engines pick up new links.

im looking for on like google but without the ai search that i literally cant turn off but not an ass search engine like yahoo

thanks

I've been searching since the old days. I used to use Google with quotes, commands, and Boolean operators until I got fewer than 200 results. sometimes to zero results, then back off. This allowed me to find extremely rare information.

Google is completely broken now. Does any search engine exist that would allow me to do all of this today? Or is the majority of the web now lost and inaccessible?

I'm a marketer who wants to increase reach and traffic on Pinterest. Any tips on how SEO works on Pinterest? Exhibition is my niche. This is my sample post:

which is better to use google yahoo bing duckduckgo?

What’s the best search engine alternative to Google and Yahoo?

I’m looking for something similar to Yandex () with good search quality, fast performance, and useful results.

What do you recommend and why?

I'm probably either wording this badly, or maybe imaging something that doesn't exist.

I'm looking for a way of researching a couple of subjects and generating the most worldwide, rather than localised, mix of results.

I've seen reference to Google.com/ncr as a way of bypassing localised redirects, but I'm not clearly if that would generate globalised Google results, or just provide US focused results.

Are there any cool alternatives, crawlers, tricks that could help provide a mix of results not anchored to any particular country?

Thanks in advance if you made it this far!

As per the title, do you know of any solid, test case based comparison or study?

The three aspects that I'm interested in the most are:

• accuracy (ideally with search operators honoured)

• crawling depth or indexing coverage + neutrality (ie not flooding me with most popular hits; in other words, I don't care what the SE 'thinks' is the best result, I want it to bring me strictly what I define in my query, even if it's from 1996 personal page of Mr Smith from the outskirts of the internet)

• privacy

The doesn't cover that. I found a brief thread touching on the subject , but it's rather inconclusive.

I don't want SE recommendations, I know everyone has their favourite (or should I say 'least hated', these days?), but I'd like to see some data to help make choices about where to get the results I want rather than what a few big players want to feed me.

TIA.

We looked at a few thousand US/UK websites (mostly B2B SaaS) and found that around 1 in 4 were blocking at least one major AI crawler. Most of the time, it wasn’t done on purpose, it was caused by CDN settings, firewall rules, or bot protection.

Makes me wonder how many marketing teams are creating content right now while some AI tools can’t even access their site. Has anyone here checked this on their own website?

I’ve been working on a retrieval problem that shows up a lot in commerce search and AI assistants: relevance often isn’t the main bottleneck — latency, infrastructure cost, and structured product understanding are.

Most embedding models treat products as plain text, which loses attribute structure (brand, color, size, etc.). I’ve been experimenting with a commerce-specific embedder that:

• Preserves multi-field product structure during indexing

• Targets interaction-grade latency (~30 ms p95) for real-time systems

• Improves recall on low-intent and attribute-heavy queries

• Runs efficiently with smaller vector dimensions

Curious how others here are approaching:

• structured indexing vs raw text serialization

• attribute binding in embeddings

• latency vs relevance tradeoffs in production search

• embedding model versioning / compatibility

Happy to share details or compare notes if useful.

In my case I like to shop for vinyl records only in Canada to avoid extra border fees. I know many good sites and it a lot of work to search each one after the other to find the best prices.

I’ve been experimenting with different visual search engines lately — mainly to identify random objects, places, screenshots, and things I come across online. Some tools work okay, but a lot of them either push shopping results or feel hit-or-miss with accuracy. I’m more interested in something that actually helps understand what’s in an image, not just show similar pictures. For those who’ve explored this space a bit: Which visual search engine have you found most reliable?

Do you use it for specific tasks (objects, landmarks, screenshots, etc.)?

Any websites you’d recommend checking out?

I’m just trying to explore a few solid options based on real user experiences rather than ads or rankings. Would appreciate any suggestions.

Hi I was wondering between ecosia and ocean hero witch engine is better to use I know they both have eco befits but I also want a descent search engine so I would love some in put and if any one had any ideas of an app for you tube that is also eco friendsly

It's because I like to search on many search engines at the same time to verify information and, well, compare them.

Does anyone have a good overview which search engines have their own independent search index which are not based on the big engines Google, Bing and Yandex?

Does Qwant 100 % use its own index?

Today I learned that adding -ai to Google search does not in fact stop the environmental cost of creating the AI Overview. It just doesn't show it to you, but it still makes it. Or that's my understanding from doing some reading (including, ironically, from the AI Overview). From reading up on duckduckgo, it looked to me like the same story - you can request a view without the AI search results so you don't have to see them, but it still costs as much energy-wise as a search with it turned on. 99% of the time I search, I don't need or want AI results. I'm fine with manually hitting a toggle/button on the rare occasion I do and waiting a bit for it to come in. Are there alternative search engines that either don't have ai features or that let you actually disable them? Or am I wrong and one of those actually lets you disable it?

Yandex users ,why do y’all use yandex insted of duckduck go I’m just curious and if the reasons are good I’ll switch to yandex

Something I’ve been finding lately is that so many of the searches I do end up with nothing but best of lists, ai generated sites and maybe 1 or 2 genuine results. Also many of the results will just be repeated over and over. I’m using DDG on Safari on iOS. I have seen people say to go to the Brave browser but I haven’t been fond of how they’ve gone down the crypto route. Unless that can be completely isolated and shutdown I kinda don’t want to use that browser. But the thing is I can’t get Startpage (which I use on my Android tablet and my PC) on Safari so yeah

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i try to find solutions of some questions from my assignments, and many a times, duckduckgo just doesnt give the websites containing solutions to those questions, then i search the same thing on google, and it works. anyone got anything i can do?

Tell me pros and cons, tell me why you know its trust worthy. details people details hahahaha

I'm really trying to find a Search Engine that has really good and clear pictures. I was using Yahoo Image Search. But every since they updated the Android App they have completely ruined it by putting Text Captions under the Images and making the pictures a lot smaller too now. What Search Engine can I use where I can see Pictures that are big and that don't have Text Captions under them? I'm open to all kinds of suggestions for Search Engines. You can barely see any pictures on the Yahoo Search Mobile Android App because the Text Captions are covering more than half of it.

I've recently been using an app called Navo for mobile search. It lets you instantly see results from Reddit, TikTok, and LLMs, side-by-side, so you get different perspectives and actual user opinions, not just SEO-optimized sites and ads.
It’s been a serious time-saver, especially for things like product research or figuring out trending topics. One catch: after talking with the team, it sounds like Navo will be moving to a paid model because they’re running things with LLMs, similar to Perplexity but focused more on media/social content.
Has anyone else tried it? I’m also curious, what other tools or workflows are people using to surface community answers and avoid the usual junk sites or endless affiliate blogs?
Would love other suggestions (free or paid).

I have a few posts that rank well on Bing but not on Google. I know that they are weak in EEAT and, to be honest, they probably don’t deserve to rank on Google.

However, I am afraid those poor posts might be dragging down my site on Google, as Google also uses site-wide quality signals. I cannot update them much due to a lack of EEAT on those topics.

What is the best strategy here? Delete them or keep them? Deindex from Google?

I’m using a VPN and I always end up getting captchas every time I search something on Google. I know there are extensions to bypass them but I’m using Brave on iOS so I can’t use them.

I’m looking for a new search engine that gives the same results as Google without captchas. Privacy is good but not that important to me tbh. Do you have any suggestions? I know a lot of search engines but usually I prefer google results, so the closest results the better.

Do you experience sometimes Google search operators not working? For example: inurl:contact.php site:com 2026.

As time of writing, it provided me unwanted results, i..e Dot Com websites without contact.php. Searching on Google has given me a reason that they treat them as a hint.

It makes searching on internet more difficult.

Any free database search sites that work on the EU not looking for paid ones once results found.

Yeah. Am looking to make small search requests such as animals or places to research and earn microsoft reward points….

I often want to identify cars or tools based on specify shapes or details in photos.

Not “matching” as in identical pictures but recognizing distinctive features in similar pictures.

Yandex has gotten worse so did google lens, ive heard about some free ones but they dont work.

Chinese media like Baidu or 360 is the major media in China, so if any brand would like to establish brand in China, they spread branding awareness must acorss Baidu.

I've built which allows you to do web search as from your command line. Examples:

• searches on Google Flights from Berlin to Ibiza, departing next Friday and returning on the next 5th. (The last two arguments are of and are converted to actual dates.)

• searches for a hotel in Ibiza from the 28th to the 29th.

You might know the idea as !bangs from DuckDuckGo but trovu's shortcuts take two or more arguments, and those arguments can even be typed. It also runs entirely in the browser, sending no query to my server, giving you maximum privacy.

Trovu also has built-in localization by organizing shortcuts into :

• picks the French–German dictionary if your browser’s preferred language is German.

• will search on if your browser’s preferred language is en-CA.

• searches Wikipedia in your language.

• searches the French Wikipedia, overriding your browser’s language.

You can also perform simpler searches:

• searches Google for “berlin”

• searches DuckDuckGo for “berlin”

• searches Google for “berlin”, but only pages in Polish

There are 6,000+ curated shortcuts, maintained in a .

Other features include:

• .

• Set a default keyword (e.g., g for Google) that’s used when no keyword is matched.

• Create your own and subscribe to other people’s shortcuts.

• Watch the 30-second .

• Use it or as a

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

i never search about ddg on brave btw as you can see first suggestion is why ddg is bad

I am working a website built over nextjs 16.

The problem is that google indexing all my page in minutes that has least content like homepage, /categories, /categories/ai these pages rarely have anything but got indexed.

But not indexing the actual post. Shows Discovered: Currently not indexed.

What could be the problem?

robots.txt is good, sitemap is proper.

I have searched everywhere I could think of, so I’m coming to the experts… My director recently retired and stunned us all before he did by revealing to us that he posed in a magazine in a Speedo. For context, we’re all oncology researchers. He’s a buttoned up Yale graduate. Used to be a professor. Lovely guy, but exactly how you’d imagine a scientist who graduated from Yale to be. So while playing an innocent game of 2 truths and a lie for his retirement party, he seemingly made it obvious which statement was a lie - he sang a cappella in college, he’d been to Japan, and he posed in a Speedo for National Geographic. Of course after we all made our very wrong guess that our nerdy boss lied about posing half naked in a magazine, he immediately came back and said, “how could you all think I would sing a cappella?” He did this as part of a study for exercise physiology in the 90s or early 2000s. He was covered in electrodes and on a treadmill. His name is Richard Kennan. Those are the only details he was willing to spare. I have searched the internet and libraries but to no avail. So have my colleagues. (It is not lost on us that we can’t find this given our profession). I would love to give this photo to my coworkers as a Christmas gift. Rich is and will always be beloved. Having this photo in our office will be a treasure. If you can help, you will also be a treasure. Thanks in advance.

I don’t mind opt-in AI features, but if it’s opt-out, then it’s a no no

Let’s say * stands for one unknown character, and I know how many characters there are.

For example..

"A***e" with three unknowns in the middle)

"Gra" with two at the end

"***ol" with three at the start

and so on.

How can I find exactly what I want on Google?

Any tips?

The current web is filled with click-attracting headlines and high-level content that doesn't provide much value, and it's this way by design because the search engines money comes from the time people spend on them.

So, it's always a give or take on providing just good enough content to retain a user but not easily provide all information so they come back. Also, the attention span of all of us is low, so writers need to cut out relevant information to avoid getting the reader bored.

This led to many click-attracting experts writing content and topics that they barely understand, and along the way undervaluing writers who have done the research and put the time to write about complex topics.

With the rise of LLMs, now everyone can write "good" content because they were trained on that clickbait expert content, but foundational LLMs as well as people struggle to write something NEW because it's just hard to do it. To write something new and valuable, there needs to be human interaction or some way to collect information about changes in the physical world and transfer them to the web in an organized and descriptive manner.

My hope is that more and more people who are industry experts start creating relevant content with the use of LLMs! And then Al agents will navigate the web with clear goals and will bypass all the clickbait and find content that does provide value!

Only this valuable content will be picked up by agents doing online search!

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Every search I've done suggests that Ekoru has an app for iOS, but I can't find it. Similarly, Ekoru's own website has an "add to Safari" button, but clicking on the button redirects to the Chrome store?? I've looked for a Safari extension for Ekoru, and can't find it. Somebody please help, I am just trying to switch to a more private and ethical browser.

I saw a modified version of an image that would work well in photoshop layered on the version I already have, didn’t initially save it and now I can’t find it again. The one I have is a specific oddball size though. Does anybody know of an image search that lets you specify an exact image size? With that I could pretty much use general search terms and find it easily.

Thanks.

I get way less results on both platforms compared to google. I certainly don’t want to support the big corporate giant, but I wonder why so many results aren't being shown on Duck Duck and Ecosia...

Is there a real estate site that will tell you the name of people that have lived at a particular address. Checking for accuracy on an application.

Hello everyone,
I am currently developing a new search engine and am interested in hearing suggestions for useful or innovative features to include. The project is still in its early stages, so any advice on features you would want in a search engine, including search functionality, user experience, or anything else that could improve the product, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Is there a current search engine that doesn't do either AI summaries or AI chatbots? I know it's the current trend and a lot of popular engines jump on it to stay competitive, just wondering if there are good ones that still haven't done that.

Is there any search engine to help me avoid sites that bug me to turn off my ad blocker?

Hello, I do paid searches in pimeyes at a very good price. If you’re interested send me a dm.

So I was typing in random urls with bird or birb on it and I came across a website called birb.com and it had a lot of things on it but it mentioned a search engine called birbseek so I go there and type in something and later check the tracking data and my antivirus and safari found nothing no trackers stopped so maybe it’s time to try birbseek.com

Like I said in the title when I google my website, I get results like website.com/1231234234.phtml but there are no such pages in my website. I tried to change robots.txt or .htaccess but no avail.

There are more than 30 pages of results that don't exist.

Yeah

I found this "new" search engine called "Void" and I noticed it is cleaner, more customizable, and sleeker than Google. It is considered lesser-known

Although it claims to have privacy, it's not clear +

It has ads on the homepage but not in search results.

Here are the Pros

• Cleaner, Minimal UI

• Customizable Homepage

• Integrations

• AI integration

• Ability to change the priorities of search results

And here are the Cons

• Paywalled

• Has ads

• Proprietary / Closed Source

Non-referral link:

I have heard it integrates with reward extensions

My rating: 7/10
It is great for beginners, but if you are serious about privacy, you might wanna use SearX/SearXNG (Free) or metaGer (Paid) instead.

Looks like google, duckduckgo and even the meme (bing) stopped providing accurate results and are heavily censored. Any alternatives?

Unfortunately I’ve been thinking about how much of our online presence exists outside the platforms we actively use. Out of curiosity, I tried a face search tool (FaceFinderAI) with one of my public photos to see what might show up. The results weren’t extreme, but they did surface a few places I hadn’t really considered, which made me reflect on how long images can circulate once they’re online. It got me wondering how aware people are of their photo footprint. Have you ever looked into where your images appear online? Do you actively try to manage that, or is it something you don’t worry about much?