I've started using YaCy and Searxng for searches. It was terrible at first but I set my YaCy engine off indexing high quality sites that I find useful for the subjects I'm interested in.
It's refreshing in some ways - the content I get is definitely "outside of my promoted echo chamber". However, you really need to use use query syntax to get decent results, something I'd gotten out of the habit of doing with Google (actually, I'm convinced Google ignored it half the time even if you tried).
It's refreshing in some ways - the content I get is definitely "outside of my promoted echo chamber". However, you really need to use use query syntax to get decent results, something I'd gotten out of the habit of doing with Google (actually, I'm convinced Google ignored it half the time even if you tried).