--- title: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? description: A Hacker News discussion thread asking for alternatives to DuckDuckGo after the poster noticed degraded search quality, including ignored quote operators and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ask-hn-what-are-the-viable-alternatives-to-duckduckgo--qmcz8qag7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? | daily.dev og:description: A Hacker News discussion thread asking for alternatives to DuckDuckGo after the poster noticed degraded search quality, including ignored quote operators and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ask-hn-what-are-the-viable-alternatives-to-duckduckgo--qmcz8qag7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qMcZ8qAG7.png og:image:alt: Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Hacker News discussion thread asking for alternatives to DuckDuckGo after the poster noticed degraded search quality, including ignored quote operators and filter bubbles. Commenters suggest Brave Search, Marginalia, and Mojeek as alternatives, and mention the possibility of building a custom metasearch engine using a small PHP script combining multiple indexes, or even building a personal search index with SQLite using projects like Hister. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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