I use duck duck go. Recently someone showed me their screen where they were using google to do a search. I was absolutely aghast. The last time I used google when you searched for something you saw a simple text list of sites (which is how DDG still works). Instead the google results were… a disaster. You had to scroll through some much garbage before finding actual search results - a list of sites. It was like google was saying, “here, look at all this trash instead of clicking a link and going to a different site”. When did google become so bad?
> I use duck duck go.
You use a proxied Bing. If you want a proxied Google (what I prefer), you can use https://startpage.com
You can also use Whoogle if you’d rather self host.