[wizofaus]

I suspect those who find the alternatives effective aren't using search engines the way I and many other users are: asking a specific question to which there is a definitive answer that we expect Google to know. In almost every case I ask such a question, Google comes up with the goods, whereas the others (Brave especially) often do not, or at best the answer is buried somewhere in one of the first few pages found.

Edit: I just signed up for and tried Kagi. Strangely it seems to do well for searches based on my current physical location (despite never explicitly granting it permission to make use of that) but if I qualify my questions with "in America", not so well. But definitely better than DDG/Brave.

[Kuinox]

Your IP give away your current location.