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this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2026
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I do not want to be vilified for saying this, so I will echo what everyone else seems to be suggesting of DDG being a good degoogled search engine.
When I started to degoogle, personally do not remember what I was using DDG and ecosia probably. I hear ecosia has jumped into the AI game which I think is icky for what they are trying to do.
I later started getting into home labbing. I am in no way suggesting that you should jump into that right now, this is a rather expensive lifestyle, it starts with one project and you think oh fun what can I replace next? So the search engine I use now is searXNG, which I have set to pull from Bing, wikiepedia, and a bunch of smaller engines. I am just trying to say there are options for you to look into in the future. Not right now you are just getting out of the Google ecosystem
Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark.
Heh, just making a silly joke. As a home labber, I imagine you're well across YaCy, so am just name dropping it for the newbies. Yacy, Hister etc etc.
Answering the OP -
Personally, I find myself either going directly to the sites I want, using RSS feeds or (gasp!) using my local LLM agents with MCP adapters, with something like Exa to fetch the info I want (or directly via PubMed etc).
(these are raw CLI; I need to wire this up to XMPP very soon so I have something that's a little less "Haxor" for the rest of the family to use)
More and more, I am mirroring the stuff I need offline, so that I can point my pet clankers at my local files, Kiwix archives, Recoll etc and then just one-click them open.
I have heard of Yacy, do not know why I choose not to use it. Maybe tonight I will be doing another deep dive into it.
It's sort of a pain in the ass...but worth a shot. Maybe.
I looked at it some more and thought yeah probably not.
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