Since DuckDuckGo introduced AI search I switched to Qwant. Now they also force you to look at stupid and sponsored AI slop results. As these are both privacy focused sites I am starting to wonder if we will lose real search (i.e. I click on links I think are interesting) Switching to startpage.com for now.
There was stract.com, but this year it seems broken. Which is too bad. it was a guy that ran it in his basement and you got goof old school google style searches that contained relevant info, instead of ad links and promoted product links.