I’ve been using DuckDuck Go since leaving Google Search, but that seems to be the first step away. I’m not keen on their AI assist. I tried Start Page, but the first four results were ads. I don’t mind paying a small fee for good search. So Brave Search or Kagi?
I did it a week ago and it’s been great not having that AI summary at the top. I don’t know if this also disregards AI for image searches as there seemed to be an additional fix for that.