Kagi has been the only search engine worth any of my time over the last year. Very, very occasionally I'll switch to startpage (google proxy) for queries that

Kagi has been the only search engine worth any of my time over the last year. Very, very occasionally I'll switch to startpage (google proxy) for queries that I think should have pulled a result that Kagi didn't show me. 90% of the time I'm still disappointed, so I've all but stopped doing this in recent months. Even DDG gives me the same disgusted reaction as google. It's all spam and ads, and only the most common words in my query are considered. If the exact query returns nothing, DDG and google give me a bunch of garbage anyway. Kagi just shows a reasonable message that this query produced no results. And let's not forget booleans and quotes and all the other advanced search techniques. Google et al just don't even have a horse in this race anymore. It's all just momentum and money, there's no product anymore.