It’s really disingenuous to mud sling people with a different view by implying they themselves don’t exist/are astroturfing/are bots.

I’m a real human who decided to use their service for kicks and actually like some of the benefits and control over the results compared to other search engines.

Especially when I’m doing research, which is usually half of all my time searching anyways.

Enough that I decided to pay for the service.

Are you saying that because I liked a service that I can’t seem to get anywhere else I’m now the bad guy?