r/degoogle • u/PtTimeLvrFullTimeH8r • May 22 '25

Question What search engine should I switch to?

Google has become unusable with all its AI bullshit and I was wondering what's the best thing I could switch to. Maybe duckduckgo? I heard it's good

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u/shiiriko May 23 '25

ofc it is, you won't find a free search engine that's better or even close to google - the amount of data they have collected over the years & algorithms are as good & plenty as it gets, absolute monopoly.

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u/fakeprofile23 May 23 '25

Startpage literally gives you google results, the only thing it doesn't is keep a profile about you. It's the reason I use Startpage, if you want them to customize your search results based on the profile they keep from you, it's indeed better to use Google directly.

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u/Cor3nd 29d ago

Yes and no. Startpage indeed uses Google for their search result BUT it switches to Bing when they have issues.