I’ve heard people are switching to AI for search because of how badly Google is sabotaging their core product.

Kagi is great. Strong recommend

noai.duckduckgo.com has been my go-to for a while now. It's not perfect but gets the job done.

Qwant and Ecosia are good. They are European companies, and have been working on European search index for some time now. Most browsers have one of the two as a search engine option.

https://www.qwant.com/

https://www.ecosia.org/

EDIT: Here's a blog post from last year: The internet just got better: our European search index goes live

This isn't a beautiful chart. What should be a pie chart has been turned into... Whatever this is?

It gives a cognitive emotional bias to the viewer of Google physically pushing it's competitors out to the fringes, to the edge, etc. Shouldn't introduce any extra bias on top of the data.

This is not beautiful, fuck Google.

I switched to ecosia a few weeks ago

Works well IMO

Search engines have became so bad that are mostly unusable. If appending the word reddit at the end of a query doesn't work, and it works less and less every day I just give up.

I try to switch here and there, but Google search is still at least a level above everyone else, even considering all the shityfication they did. Sometimes it's just bizarre how badly other search engines do at some searches.

Since others are offering alternatives, I'd like to share a tool I use: https://www.searchenginemap.com/