Brave Search

Built on Brave’s own independent index rather than reselling Google or Bing, which is the meaningful difference and increasingly rare. It’s closed-source and US-based, and the results, while improving, can still trail Google on obscure or very local queries. Pick Brave Search when you want to actually break the Google/Microsoft duopoly rather than quietly reselling it, and you can tolerate the occasional thinner result page. If you only care about result parity with Google, a proxy like Startpage may frustrate you less.