I'm a current duckduckgo user, but I may give Kagi Search a try — it's a premium search engine with a monthly subscription. But you are paying for privacy, no ads, no tracking. It lets you sit the rules instead of just riding the waves of the latest version of the you-are-the-product algorithm.
This is a premium search engine that I've heard very good things about. They make a good case for paying for a search engine: free search engines aren't free to begin with. If you don't want your data sold, consider paying for search. They also have an interesting (free) web browser with ad block built in. I'm not ready to pay yet so I use DuckDuckGo rn.
this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing
