I don’t really care about the tshirt drama or some type of ideological purity in their funding etc.
Kagi just works well and I really love the way that you can prioritize the sites you like and block the sites that you don’t in the search and that there aren’t any ads and I’ve used a lot of other search engines and this is the only one I’ve like well enough that I actually enjoy using it and don’t find myself subconciously back at google.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314
Whip up a SearXNG instance or use one instead.