@MK2boogaloo I stopped using ddg for 2 reasons: 1) they started getting faggy and working with Google and Microsoft ad shit and 2) the search results were meh, I needed to go on Google half the time anyway.

I used yandex for a while but it was pretty unwieldy.

I haven't used searx at all but it seems cool in concept. I use brave search right now and it's actually really good imo, it has a cool feature I haven't seen before where it will specifically show discussions on pages like stackexchange and reddit when you're searching questions. I rarely have to use Google for better results anymore.