Yacy is a distributed open source search engine. It isn't amazing, but I'm planning to spin up an instance to add to my searx.
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I've been using a searxng instance on fbxl that points to most engines other than Google and Bing as my default search engine everywhere -- on mobile on desktop, at home and at work. I keep on thinking that I'm missing something, but then if I have a search that isn't coming up with very good results and I go to Google and try the same search it usually ends up with much worse results. I really expected to miss Google a lot more than I do.
Remember that searx is just a search aggregator, so it can include start page or even Google results depending on how the instance is set up.
The only thing I'm still using Google for is YouTube. Say what you will, it's still the best platform for my exact use case.
Looks like another key is for people hosting searx to use it as a web proxy so it can crawl those sites and add them all to the index. Wasn't hard to set up on my side, it even uses upnp to make the p2p work.