I have been using the Brave search engine with much success.
Yandex
Just kidding. Might not want to use sites like that right now..
Probably a bullshit scam if not an outright honeypot but I did see a review of freespoke.com on jim stone earlier. Seriously though I do not have a good option. Most 'independent' ones merely filter google results through a third party. Google has gone to shit. Not just due to censorship or pushing their agenda but in terms of delivering results. It has hidden criteria to redirect you to more commonly searched terms, implied contexts that it restricts the field too, and even if they still made a quality product most major sites devote a good bit of effort to defeating it in order to rank higher. It has gotten to the point that it will ignore several operators.
Card catalog
Dewey decimal FTW
You just have to type whatever you want to find after the last /. For multiple word searches you have to use %20 instead of a space.
Nice response best one hands down
They are all cucked, or they are dogshit.
Yandex
I use StartPage.com on the Brave browser
My go to
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