There is no good alternative right now. Even eu-based ones use google's or bing's search indexes, essentially being a different frontend for google and bing, so

There is no good alternative right now. Even eu-based ones use google's or bing's search indexes, essentially being a different frontend for google and bing, so imo it does not make much difference. Kagi sort of does sth similar, but much better imo, which is also why I use them. There is a common initiative by ecosia and qwant to build their own index [0], which is hopeful though, and something to look forward to. [0] https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/ https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/