to add another anecdote: I've been using it for a year and it is really good. less garbage in the results of the sort of searches I make, no ads, no tracking,

to add another anecdote: I've been using it for a year and it is really good. less garbage in the results of the sort of searches I make, no ads, no tracking, no logging, a nice UI to affect my own personal search results in ways I prefer (banning sites I consider crap from results, up and downranking others based on my opinion). most importantly, it's just a simple, clear business transaction: I give them money, they provide a search engine in return. no trying to make me click on ads, no trying to encourage me to use it or let it track me to make money some other way, no worries about how they manage to provide a service to me, no worries about what future management might do with the huge morass of personal data they have acquired. every now and then I can't find what I'm looking for and try Google, and the vast majority of the time Google can't find it either. it's pretty sad that a tiny new upstart can actually replace the once formidable Google Search for me, but c'est la vie.