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For any given query, if you're not satisfied with the first results out of one search engine, try two competing ones. Next time you have a search, begin with whatever one did the best on your previous search. Iterate. Record and publish your results.
Folks were unsatisfied with AltaVista and Lycos; that's how Google won for a while. At one point, Yahoo stood for "You Always Have Other Options". You still do.
I'm probably going to get down-voted for saying this but my primary search engine is Bing because of the rewards thing but I often use Brave's search engine for more private searches.
I would also consider looking into either Ecosia or OceanHero. Someone has already mentioned Ecosia but OceanHero does something similar but for cleaning oceans.
I switched to Brave Search after watching Techlore's video about it.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Kagi if you're mentally ill
not duckduckgo from what i remember there was something with data and microsoft but you probably research thag before you trust me bcs i dont remember all of it. searchng is good, selfhosted or public instances. good luck
Just use what you like and don't worry so much about what other people approve of. I personally don't like Firefox, despite everyone singing it's praises. I know it's more efficient on RAM, but RAM is cheap and I have more than enough.
I personally use Brave for most of my search aueries and don't see anything wrong with it. If I can't find something with it (which is rare these days), then I use SearXNG to get Google results proxied.
Yeah. Brave search.