Hi, do you have a minute? I would like to talk about https://kagi.com as the solution to all your problems.
Google will always try to squeeze more and more ads into your life, just like Microsoft and all the other big tech shitfarms.
While Kagi uses some Google search results, they are avoiding most of the SEO crap you get in Google while also giving you the option to completely remove or prioritize whatever sites you want in the search results.
It really makes the web feel very fresh again because you discover sites you never see on Google or Bing.
$120 a year and still limited to 3600 searches. Pretty sure I’m way above that number. I get they need to make up for lost as revenue but that’s still too much for me to justify. I’ll keep giving my data to a free engine.
They recently made that level unlimited. That’s when I became a customer. Before that, I agree, not worth it.
FYI, Kagi provides unlimited searching now.