I hate them all. A good searx instance that stays active honestly gets me better matches in general.

I’ve tested with an open source offline 70b LLM recently. Like I was searching for some very specific industrial adhesive products by application, and where I had no idea what existed. When I searched DDG, I got echo chamber ads for consumer grade crap. The AI gave me several brands and products. Some were not real or were close but not quite right. Searching for these on DDG was curious. It paused for a couple seconds longer than usual before each result was given. It felt like, “please wait while we expand your environment…achievement unlocked.” Suddenly it knows all about this stuff and generates thousands of results. So yeah, you’re not alone in feeling like search engines are total garbage now. This AI may not be 100% reliable but it is better than the SEO idiot.