Now that's not related to google, or maybe indirectly, but I used to search with qwant for at least a year, roundabout. I read on HN about github clones, riddle

Now that's not related to google, or maybe indirectly, but I used to search with qwant for at least a year, roundabout. I read on HN about github clones, riddled with ads, and in the end directing to github, with adding an referer. I never saw one of those myself though. A few weeks ago I decided to switch to search.brave.com, because I read they build there own index. This is what I ultimately want from an alternative search engine, not relying on googles/bings results. It then turned out, that at least their image search is not an own index at all, because the first site of results was 100% similar to googles image search. Also it turned out, when searching with brave, all of a sudden I get to see these github clones in my results. I am not sure about the reasons for all this, but I went back to qwant.