Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

Post by godshatter » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:45 PM UTC

traceroute66 wrote: post #22

Ecosia and Qwant have just started collaborating on EUSP (European Search Perspective)[1] This could easily yield very interesting (i.e. "not just another bing proxy") results once it starts gaining traction. I use DuckDuckGo at the moment, only because Startpage started making themselves impossible to use when they started aggressively blocking access via VPNs. As other people have already said,see `noai.duckduckgo.…

Post by ldng » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:50 PM UTC

bejd wrote: post #39

sakarrakas wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's when the search engine starts answering with links "tailored" by your usage, effectively trapping you into a bubble. But I also never heard the "bubbling" verb.

Exactly. DuckDuckGo used to advertise themselves as a way to escape Google's search bubble[0] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140720050529/http://dontbubble...

Post by cyanregiment » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:58 PM UTC

esseph wrote: post #47

cyanregiment wrote: post #3

We need it - I’d use 3 search engines. It’s not like MMOs or social media where 1 winner takes all. I think people want more search options, cloud, email, and so-on. I once tried to index the web with local Mistral 7b. Here’s what I did: 1. Copy/pasted an English dictionary and removed the definitions, so I just had an Array of about 500k words. 2. Wrote a simple loop to iterate over the words, with the instruction t…

You could just pull tls cert registrations CT logs, way easier. Or https://crt.sh

Post by ndom91 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

Post by abnercoimbre » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

ndom91 wrote: post #57

I'm a bit of a privacy nerd, but even so it still took me a while to convince myself it was worth paying for a search engine. Ever since getting over that, however, I've been extremely happy with Kagi. Couldn't recommend it more.