You can use the list of search engines I linked from my Wikiless instance above if you want to compare the current available search engines, or if you want more backstory surrounding my usage of Startpage, you can read about it on the Purism community forums:
After DuckDuckGo, I used Gigablast for quite a while, but it looks like it was recently shutdown without any announcement or notice. After using several search engines, including Startpage, SearX(NG) and LibreX, I started using Mojeek for the last few months, but very recently decided to go back to Startpage for now. It is one of the few ties I have with Google, even though the relationship is indirect.
When I get stumped, I usually use Startpage ; it uses the Google search engine as the backend. Occasionally I use Wikipedia or the ArchWiki .
I use Startpage, which uses the Google search engine backend, but I have been looking to reduce my dependency on it for a while now. Currently, these are the listed search engine options available on LibRedirect:
I already used most of these proxy front-ends before, but due to rate limiting issues, I ended up swapping back to Startpage.
Currently I use my own Whoogle instance:
https://whoogle.franklyflawless.org/
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