Cris

Marginalina is a super cool, foss indieweb search engine!! ☺️ I believe there may be another option in that space, maybe somone else can chime in :)

https://marginalia-search.com/

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For more general searching honestly none of the options are without fairly major faults. Either run by people who are varying levels of crappy, or don’t work as well as you might want, or aren’t independent and so are dependent on a proprietary company continuing toallow them to exist, or all of the above.

I’ve been using Brave search as my google replacement and the folks behind Brave are pretty crap. But it works reasonably well, is independent with their own index and search algorithm, and keeps me from always using Google. In the current landscape you kinda just pick the thing that in your eyes, sucks the least.

It also has a feature for limiting your search to certain types of sites like the small web, or news, or academic papers, etc, called goggles, but I haven’t used it much so I can’t speak to how well it works or if other engines may have similar features

I hope you find a setup that works well for you! ❤️