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  "path": "/t/best-alternative-search-engine-option-that-actually-works/38106?page=2#post_25",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-25T16:10:12.000Z",
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  "textContent": "It depends on my usecase, though I generally stick with a rotation between Brave search, Startpage, and Duckduckgo[1] for general search, and I’m a big believer in adding site specific “site search” to my browser for more niche use cases.[2]\n\nI’ve experimented with SearXNG in the past, but I’ve had a hard time finding a public instance that is both stable and trustworthy, and I don’t really want to self host it.\n\nMojeek, and Metager were _okay_ but did not have some locally relevant relevant results which I would regularly rely on.\n\nI still have to give PriEco a try one of these days\n\nAnd yeah, the search space is _better_ than the browser space, but it still isn’t _great_ (in my opinion)\n\n* * *\n\n  1. I am aware of Duckduckgo’s lack of independence here, but I do still get some use out of it. ↩︎\n\n  2. Think adding stack exchange for programming questions and PG forum for privacy questions. ↩︎\n\n\n",
  "title": "Best alternative search engine option that actually works?"
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