Yes, though I think I also read it from other sources. But I want to read more and find out further news about those claims.

No, I stand corrected: the summary/snippet wasn’t showing some of the quoted search words, but the page had all of them. Well done SearXNG.

Trying it these past days and I’m impressed!

I didn’t know about this – that may explain the problem.

Nice initiative besides the search service! Thanks for sharing.

True about the good old-Google feeling! I want to find how much about of the shadiness claims about Startpage have been substantiated or denied.

Really funny about page 😂 Cool that they share the git code!

Admittedly it could be a temporary fluctuation of some kind.

I tried Kagi for a while, but it was giving me less useful results than DDG, so I simply left it. I think it depends a lot on what kinds of searches one does, and Kagi is more useful for other users.

I’ll give Qwant too a try, cheers! Testing SearXNG for a couple of days first.

Tried Startpage a while ago, but was put off but some alleged iffy dealings of the company behind it. Trying SearXNG now and I’m impressed!

I’ve been using SearXNG during the last day and I’m quite impressed too so far!

True what you say about the problems behind net search. It’s actually a very complex problem. In my opinion part of the problem is that there’s a lot (most?) of rubbish out there. It’s like a library with useful books of different genres all mixed together, and mixed with an even larger amount of nonsense books. Maybe a solution would be something completely different from indexing – but I have no idea what.

Thank you for the explanation about rankings, and the SearXNG suggestion. I’m trying it now and it looks promising!

Didn’t know about several of these, cheers!

It’s very likely to depend on the kinds of searches I do, indeed. Although I think it’s the same as in the previous years. Could also be just a subjective impression, so I’ll try to keep count of how often the “!g” really leads to better results.

I’m trying SearX today, after so many recommended it. It looks promising! Thank you for pointing out the multiple-engines setup.

One possible drawback: it seems I can’t do “verbatim” searches; or at least, quotation marks don’t seem to lead to verbatim searches – I’ll try with “+”. DDG was adamant with quotation marks, that’s something I liked a lot about it.

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried Kagi a couple of times, but it missed the useful results that DDG or Google were giving, so I dropped it.

It depends of course on what kinds of searches one typically needs. Probably there isn’t a universally best search engine.

I remember reading that there was something “fishy” with Startpage, which is why I abandoned it quickly. But don’t remember where.

Luckily I don’t often search for videos, but I agree that it seems difficult to find good search alternatives there.

I’ll try qwant!

This is the Way.