I’m looking for something that just gives good results with their own engine, not proxying google or yahoo, without LLMs being involved.
I’ve used startpage and have my own searxng instance self hosted. But both use mostly google results with just a nicer frontend.
I was looking Kagi as an alternative. But they seemed to move to become another AI company, bundling their subscription to the search engine with a subscription to an LLM, so I’m not paying for that.
After a couple of years using Kagi, I’ve been giving Uruky a try for the past two weeks. It’s a European meta-search engines which uses European indexes.
In my experience, setting Serper (a UK-based privacy preserving proxy to Google Search) as the first index to use gives the best responses, but I still happen to go back to Kagi once in a while (like, maybe 2-3 times in the past week).