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Lots of other search engine options.
Kagi seems good.
I'm currently using duckduckgo and it's roughly as good as google search at this point. I remember it being considered a joke when it first launched.
God forbid, bing is also an option.
if you self host, or if you can find an instance your trust, searxng is great imho.
I thought duckduckgo used bing's API?
It does, it's completely anonymised tho, and they pull in results from Yahoo and other sources (even Yandex). So while they do use the Bing API their results can be pretty vastly different from Bing's.
Is there a search engine that doesn't leech off of some huge corporate API?
Brave uses their own index. Qwant and Ecosia have partnered to build their own index as well.