As google have grown they have increasingly turned to more censorship and advertising. This limits the number of results from a search and also creates less privacy as they are tracking everything you type in for advertising results.
Due to Googles lack of privacy protection, a couple of newer search engines have emerged. Duckduckgo being the most popular alternative search engine that claims it is privacy focused. However, there have been recent news about censorship on this search engine along with information about them using Bing as a backend, which leads to questions about whether they are much better than Google.
Due to Duckduckgo's questionable privacy, a new search engine by the creators of the Brave browser has emerged. Brave Search claims it is "the world’s most complete, independent, private search engine". I have used it now for a few months and it seems to be fast and provides good results, however how much privacy it provides has yet to be determined. The Brave browser is based on Chromium but offers settings to enhance privacy on the web, I have used it a number of times along with my favorite browser Ungoogled-Chromium which is just Chromium minus Googles extra spying stuff. It's not as easy to install and upgrade as other Browsers but I think it worth it.
So in short, I use Ungoogled-chromium browser with Brave Search as my default search engine which has to be manually set up in Settings but no-one said trying to maintain some privacy on the web was going to be easy. Enjoy!
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