Andrew (Television Executive)So, what's the move for search engine's these days?
Duck duck go is a wrapper on bing that censors itself.
Google is The Empire from Star Wars.
There was that little paid search engine that kept double down on AI.
Is there anything else?
bds@ajroach42 I've been using Kagi and it's been pretty great
yeah they've done some doubling down on AI but I find you can use it without all that - but I totally get not wanting to go with them because of that
@bds I don't want to signal to them that I am comfortable with their AI stance by giving them money.
@ajroach42 fair enough!
thanks for putting the question out there though, learning about a few other options I haven't heard of
Joby 
(he/him)@ajroach42 @bds yeah, I'm currently running down a subscription with them, but looking for other options for when it runs out because of how all-in on AI they've gone. Also their results are getting just as filled with slop as everywhere else, and that was one of the biggest selling points for me at first. I've been getting great mileage out of adding "before:2003" to filter it out, but that's not really a sustainable approach long-term.
I've been experimenting with self-hosting SearXNG, and it seems promising. Whoogle and YaCy also look worth trying (and are both easy to set up on my existing YunoHost server), but I haven't actually tried them yet.