I feel like there are probably some ad based search engines which are privacy and service oriented, but in general even for those there remains a misalignment problem. Hence if I don’t want to be a product now or in the future, what good search engines are there that I can pay for?
I think I only know of Kagi. Are there any more?
metager is the only other one i know of
I think qwant is one? Or maybe it’s just European and not paid.
It’s French and free.