Out of curiosity, what issues are you having with SearXNG? I’m self hosting and recently have noticed a lot of timeouts across many of the engines I have enabled. Just wondering if you’re having similar experience

I personally love Kagi. Any time I have to use something else, it now feels painful.

Swisscows is Bing, Kagi has multiple sources. If you've not enjoyed using Bing in the past then your decision is pretty much made for you there.

Swisscows is conservative shit imo, go with Kagi instead. They even block normal porn.

Kagi is great, probably the best I've tried, but expensive. I just use DDG for now, until my financial situation improves.

Swisscows blocks "violent and pornographic content". I don't know why you would use it, since it's a pretty broad spectrum of content and we don't know what the criteria are

Kagi requires an account, therefore associating all your searches to your account. With DuckDuckGo HTML, you can restrict it so it can't access JavaScript (which it doesn't do anyways), therefore reducing the risk of fingerprinting or other tracking.

I use Kagi and it works well. Seems to give results on what I'm looking for. It gives me the website I typed in rather than a billion other things with a different name first

I have never tried Swisscows but I just want to say that Kagi is fantastic. Absolutely the best search experience I had in years.

If you don’t mind paying, give metager.org a try

Just use searxng on your pc with podman and set a start up script podman start searxng now you can use it on localhost: 8080 and is better than public instances as is less blocked by ip

I used Swisscows for years, and they were my favorite in terms of quality of results.