For years I loved to use the SearXNG based searx.be (From the same maintainer as Invidious instance yewtu.be) but for me it is broken since weeks. It used to give me the best results for my use-cases and without distractions, and with nice cache button options for archive.org
I can see that the maintainer switched from Google to Bing as the first choice of search engine and I see that the maintainer is very often the first of all SearXNG instance with applying the latest software update but it is no longer working for me. Almost always no results at all.
Luckily I have a solution now. Mullvad has its own metasearch engine called Leta (SearXNG and Mullvad Leta are both metasearch engines, meaning that they do not index sites themselves but they query e.g. Google, Bing or Brave and so on) and I love it.
It works very well. But only available for Mullvad customers and a maximum of 100 search queries per day.
With Mullvad Leta you can choose Google or Brave, and it looks like Mullvad added a country pull-down menu option recently. If my memory serves me well it was not there a few weeks ago.
What I do not like so much is that with some queries it gives Reddit results, but it is easy to refine the search query and add
-reddit.com
Besides Mullvad Leta I also use DDG, Startpage, Disroot SearXNG or another instance, and if I need something on Wikipedia I use Mojeek. Variety is good 🙂
Dank voor je comment. Leuk. Hier is een link naar Mullvad’s blog post uit 2023 van Mullvad over hun Leta zoekmachine. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-mullvad-leta-a-search-engine-used-in-the-mullvad-browser En ik heb het nu ook in m’n blog post daarover ingevoegd als link om het de lezers gemakkelijker te maken.
@voltooidverledentijd Oh! Daar had ik nog niet van gehoord… En ik ben klant bij Mullvad! Snel maar even mee aan de slag. Ik denk niet dat ik snel aan 100 zoekopdrachten kom.