Not a technical person, as I understand it, Google and Bing are full search engines while options like Seaexng, Ecosia, Duckduckgo are meta search engine that depend on Google or Bing. Are there other search engines that are fully independent, and if there aren’t, what are the barriers that stop other search engines from emerging


I think part of why the internet sucks now is we’ve grown accustomed to too much for free.
The $10 I spend on Kagi is the best subscription I have, and one of the only ones I still keep.