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Kagi!!! It's cost money but it's cheap. If you do alot of searches it's worth it
I tried Kagi and canceled after a week. It's a reformat of DuckDuckGo, a better format for sure, and lack of sponsored links, yet it adds AI too. In the end, it's the same old curated unhelpful results that leave millions of high value boutique and indie sources of information out. Also, it's Orion browser is bad.
Basically ask yourself that knowing all the good writers, content creators went to Substack, yet hardly any search engine gives results from there, why?
There isn't going to be a search engine without some type of ai or content agitation tool. Key word search is not enough to make one of these work. Search engines need to sort through millions of web pages, and try to give you the best match for what your looking for via smart algorithms. With Google these algorithms are designed to sell you products and get the most clicks out of you. Kagis profit incentive is to curate good links for your search results. Indie results will always be low on the ranks thats why they are indie. As they get more popular so so their search results. You don't want your search engine feeding you only new and up and coming shit. You want the most relevant search results. Sometimes it's going to take some digging to find what your looking for. UNLESS you want to give up mountains of your data to and hope that the company uses it to serve your interest instead of feed you sponsored bullshit.