i was looking at lemmy posts and found a post about alternatives to searxng, and one person commented degoog
i tried it and honestly it seems pretty good, but im not sure how privacy-friendly it is, so im just making sure that its privacy friendly enough (i use DDG for reference)
it’s not a search engine, but a proxy, you get your results from multiple sources. i’m currently using it as my main place to search stuff and it works, sometimes there are some quirks (i could improve my config maybe) but it works, i’ve tried searxng years ago and it was a mess in comparison. keep in mind degoog it’s written in js mostly so it’s a bit heavy but it has more features and stuff. if you want absolute minimum 4get works very well.