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Search engines cost money to run. If you aren't paying for the product, you're being monetized some other way. You're the product that's served up to the real customers - the businesses who buy data and advertising.
That's why Kagi is a thing even though there's free search engines all over the place - you pay a monthly subscription, and then you are the search engine's customer.
Kagi is honestly amazing. I was expecting it to be a little better than Google, but most of the time it even takes me back to a time before the great sloppification. I look stuff up and I find it, that's all I want and I am gladly paying for that.