On the one hand, Google’s still the dominant search engine, having used every dirty trick in the book to reach that position and maintain it. If you aren’t on Google, you arguably might as well not exist.
On the other hand, Google’s already under heavy scrutiny since being officially declared an illegal monopoly, and the public is pissed with how Google’s declined in search quality - and deliberately so.
Part of me says we’re about to see some truly wild shit go down.
I changed to kagi 3 months ago and first was weird paying for a search engine but now it makes complete sense. Love being a customer and not a product!
You could try the brave browser as an alternative they don’t collect your data.
On that note, why not try serenity? Or urbit, while you’re at it. Careful, don’t get caught supporting these, use monero, putting the “cryptofascist” in “cryptocurrency”.