@georgia@dickkickextremist.xyz I've tried searx which is a FOSS self hostable, extensible metasearch engine, it is alright. But of course it relies heavily on existing search engines. Also swisscows is good (it is an actual search engine) and I use it most of the time, and I plan to run my own YaCy server which is a sort of p2p search engine and is conceptually very awesome.

I do use DDG, but not when I'm looking for new information.