Imagine if there was no "default" search engine or list of suggested search engines in the settings. I keep a running list of "alternative" search engines -- n

Imagine if there was no "default" search engine or list of suggested search engines in the settings. I keep a running list of "alternative" search engines -- not directly Google or Bing, not Yahoo -- that work without JS or session cookies. There are thirteen in the list at the moment. Takes user a few seconds to type https://www.google.com/?q=%s https://www.google.com/?q=%s or whatever into settings. Would that produce more meaningful "choice"? Would users choose a search engine based on advertising or word-of-mouth? Looks like Qwant uses Bing for ads. No ads if Javascript is turned off. e.g. curl -A "superagent/1.0" https://lite.qwant.com/?q=example If get no results, try this first curl -A "superagent/1.0" https://lite.qwant.com/verify Can get search suggestions in JSON via Opensearch: curl https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest/?q=example