You are still bringing the big providers traffic

gonna be honest, this falls under the “no ethical consumption” bit for me. someone’s gonna get my traffic and ad revenue, i might as well get the best results for it. And to be honest, the best results i’ve had have been with paid, industry specific search engines. It removes some of the emotional barrier i’ve got toward trying some of the paid services like Kagi, just i’m on a pretty tight budget. $5/mo for 300 searches (do your unused searches roll over to the next month?) means i have to cut back somewhere, and we have been doing that month after month after month. A search engine just is not worth eating less. (note i did not say eating out less).

search engines seem to be going the way of streaming sites. if you know where-ish to look, you can put the search in there. but there’s no good general, has everything except specialized knowledge search engine that i’ve found.