I've been using Brave Search as my default the past ~6 months (previously I was using DuckDuckGo). I think Google is better at the "instant answer" part and its

I've been using Brave Search as my default the past ~6 months (previously I was using DuckDuckGo). I think Google is better at the "instant answer" part and its index really shines in some types of searches. Nobody talks much about it anymore but Google Books is amazing, no other search engine has that massive library at its disposal and for really specific topics, a result from an obscure old book is exactly what you need. But that said, I prefer Brave's layout and the quality of the first 2 pages is better for most everyday queries and programming questions. Brave's "Discussions" card is great: it presents threads from forums and Reddit, which gets me to an actually useful thread much faster than opening a bunch of tabs from a Google site search. There is also an interesting feature called "Goggles" for boosting or removing a specific list of domains, for example a list of sites popular on HN. It sounds like a cool idea but to be honest I never use it.