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16 days agoThese are the ones I use (Kagi needs to be logged in, but you could use Privacy Pass with their extension for anonymous searching - I haven’t tested if it needs any extra configuration to block AI with Privacy Pass)
Name: Kagi
URL: <Copy Session Link from a logged in window>
Keyword: @k
Suggestion Url: https://kagisuggest.com/api/autosuggest?q=%25s
Name: DuckDuckGo.noai
URL: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?start=1&q=%25s
Keyword: @d
Suggestion URL: https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?type=list&q=%25s
Name: Brave.noai
URL: https://search.brave.com/search?summary=0&q=%25s
Keyword: @b
Suggestion URL: https://search.brave.com/api/suggest?q=%25s
The start=1 parameter on DDG keeps it from doing the first run popups when searching in private windows.
Also, I haven’t tried but you can theoretically mix and match suggest URLs with different search engines if you wanted to somehow decouple search suggestions from actual searches.
Edit: on second thought, that’s effectively just doubling the number of entities who know what you’re searching for. I see no privacy benefit to decoupling. Perhaps something to do if one engine’s suggestions are pure trash.
They’re scummy crypto bros, but in my anecdotal testing, their search engine is more likely to turn up useful results than DDG.
They are, however, a fallback to the fallback in my search flow, so they get used like 1x/year. There would be little benefit to searching another Bing clone after DDG, and I have no interest in searching Google, so this is where I’ve landed.
Would be happy to expand the list if you have suggestions for search engines, and the associated codes for blocking AI summaries in private searches.