Search Engine Alternatives

Discussions recommend alternatives like DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, and Searx over Google, criticizing its AI integrations, ads, and biases while praising privacy and quality of traditional search.

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Sample Comments

dist-epoch Aug 5, 2025 View on HN

Google search is better. It's just that now you ask the LLM what you want to find out.

tubularhells Nov 20, 2020 View on HN

Use ddg to escape your search bubble.

themafia Jan 8, 2026 View on HN

I want a functioning search engine. Keep your goofy opinionated mostly wrong LLM out of my way, please.

mda Nov 30, 2021 View on HN

Main search is powered by bing, lets not kid ourselves. ddg is not answering complex queries by using its own crawled index.

Sulfide6416 Mar 27, 2025 View on HN

G-Search MCP is an open-source server that makes Google searching much faster by running multiple queries in parallel. Perfect for developers and researchers needing efficient data gathering. Get structured JSON results and automatic CAPTCHA handling. Speed up your workflow with G-Search MCP!

guerrilla Jul 12, 2023 View on HN

Use Brave Search. It's way better.

ct0 Nov 12, 2018 View on HN

Proudly using DDG search over the competitor!

giantg2 Sep 23, 2021 View on HN

Mostly just google / duckduckgk, then choose from those results.

notsospecialk Aug 11, 2021 View on HN

Any search query options! Is there a secret way to search other than Google?

dynofuz Jul 11, 2017 View on HN

what will this do that google / baidu search dont do