I’m pretty happy with Kagi which does search, including images (and a personal favorite, GIFs), well. It’s meta-search so they capitalize on other indexes.
I too never had luck with DDG - I like their general privacy ethos, but their search sucks. They’ve gotten a little better as they’ve shifted away from being 100% Bing, but only baby steps so far.
Brave is much better search, but hate their crypto-bro company ethos. Image search is meh.
Self hosted meta-search options (SearXNG, Whoogle) are good but difficult to set up well.
Kagi, Brave, and DDG all let you disable AI responses in settings. If you’re otherwise alright with Brave just turn AI results off (does require you to let them keep a cookie).
“Search” engines will always prioritize their revenue source. If you want a search engine that prioritizes search, you need to DIY or find someone whose revenue source is search, not data/ads.
To my knowledge the only engine getting their income from search is Kagi.
I’m pretty happy with Kagi which does search, including images (and a personal favorite, GIFs), well. It’s meta-search so they capitalize on other indexes.
I too never had luck with DDG - I like their general privacy ethos, but their search sucks. They’ve gotten a little better as they’ve shifted away from being 100% Bing, but only baby steps so far.
Brave is much better search, but hate their crypto-bro company ethos. Image search is meh.
Self hosted meta-search options (SearXNG, Whoogle) are good but difficult to set up well.
Kagi, Brave, and DDG all let you disable AI responses in settings. If you’re otherwise alright with Brave just turn AI results off (does require you to let them keep a cookie).
“Search” engines will always prioritize their revenue source. If you want a search engine that prioritizes search, you need to DIY or find someone whose revenue source is search, not data/ads.
To my knowledge the only engine getting their income from search is Kagi.