another vote for Kagi - it's just very pleasant to use. It's fast, the results are great, it's quite cheap for a tech-employed-Westerner, and it's just really quite nice to have such a simple business relationship for this. I pay them some small amount of money to me and in return they simply buy indexes of the web and let me search it. There's no tension about them wanting me to use it more to see more ads and the incentive is for them to implement features that I, the person who gives them money wants, and if they turn to shit I simply stop paying them and use someone else.<p>Some nice features that may not be obvious:<p>- you can shitcan entire sites, e.g. everything to do with Pinboard or Facebook
- you can uprank sites in the results that tend to be useful, e.g. MDN
- you can add shortcuts to the search box
- it has "lenses" which limit the search results in slightly abstract ways, e.g. "small web" or "academic"<p>They also did a bunch of work so you can do searches from incognito windows, and they can verify your subscription without knowing specifically you who are.<p>Also, as some more anecdata, I can't tell if Google has got worse or Kagi better, but a year ago I'd find my useful using Google a few times a month for something niche (usually source code-related), but over the last few months Google hasn't been any better even for that, so I've basically stopped even that minimal use.<p>Anyway, it's very good, but in that way that just makes me a bit happier in life for using it, rather than being acutely exciting.