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You had me until Kagi
EDIT: if you want to pay for a search engine, more power to you. I’d rather not pay for a service that likely has its own set of issues.
You can either pay for a service, or that service will utilise every single aspect of it to monetise you.
I’ll let Kagi prove itself as a viable option for a year or two before I jump on board.
I haven't used them for all the intervening time, but archive.org has the website clearly running in November 2020 as a "privacy-respecting search engine" with accounts, albeit no dog logo yet. Maybe for some time prior to that, but the archive.org crawler got a "desktop not supported yet" error for some time prior to that (which...hmm...makes me think that it might be useful for archive.org to also archive the mobile versions of websites, though in most cases the content is probably largely the same). WP has them founded in 2018.
They're obviously a lot younger than, say, Google, but they've also been running for longer than a year.