I also tried switching to DuckDuckGo for a bit, and then Kagi after reading rave reviews here on HN. I churned after about a week with Kagi as my default search

I also tried switching to DuckDuckGo for a bit, and then Kagi after reading rave reviews here on HN. I churned after about a week with Kagi as my default search engine in iOS Safari. It was too weak at contextually aware / local search in particular. It might do better for me on desktop which tends to be a bit more knowledge research focused.