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.
Check out my post about Uruky which doesn’t have AI features for the time being. It’s far from mature though so might not be suitable as a daily driver. I’m still evaluating it myself.