Not only that, the alternatives have vanished and have also become worse as they adopt the same algorithmic changes google has made over the years (or just outr

Not only that, the alternatives have vanished and have also become worse as they adopt the same algorithmic changes google has made over the years (or just outright scrape google behind the scenes). This is shocking given the existence (now) of publicly available, open source indexing databases. You can literally build a search engine without indexing infrastructure, but everything out there is still crap.