I've been well served of late by SearX, specifically instances running the new-ish SearXNG (fork?).

SearX is a search aggregator, rather than having its own crawler, and as such a number of its instances getting temp suspensions for running too many requests in too short a time on the various search engines it queries. I still get good enough results from it.

I use searXNG daily too!

But in terms of a real search engine, I find Brave to be the best.

If didn't use Searx, I would probably be using Brave.

the searx instance I use uses brave and google by default.

I've just started using SerchXNG. How often (if at all) do they add smaller search engines like this one as options in your experience?

I was hoping to be able to use some esoteric ones, but that doesn't seem possible, unless I've overlooked something.

Being able to aggregate a couple of these up-and-coming engines with result reduplication sounds really neat.

I honestly don't pay that much attention, but they do have a decent list of potential search sources, so it's not something they're lazy about.

Additionally, this new search site (tuxdex.com) appears to just be a private/anonymous version of their existing search site (websearchengine.net) - although websearchengine.net isn't listed as a source for SearXNG either.

Is it better than DDG? My experience with it for the time being (last 2 years ish) has been mostly having to fall back to Google multiple times a day.

DDG offers a Tor onion address.

That's a feature I like, great for privacy and anonymity, relatively easy to implement, and affords some resistance to bots (who will move on to lower hanging fruit due to the connection set-up overhead)

Hope this new search engine will also offer an onion address.

TUXDEX will also provide an onion address in the near future.

IMO, Yes, the results are much better, and its Actually independent.

the Goggles and Discussions features are great.