Alternative search engines

[viper37]

I have been getting annoyed with Google lately as it covers its search results with ai summaries (the overview and those similar question drop downs with ai summary).

It used to be great but feels like I need to scroll past more things to find answers.

That got me thinking as to whether there are any viable alternatives. Today I've started trying qwant which has some odd add results at top (searching pugs told me to shop for pugs on Amazon) but results after that were cleaner.

Any others that you have tried/regularly use?

Startpage - supposedly, all of Google results, but without AI.  In my experience, not as good for image search.  More accurate to say it uses Google as a backend, if you want to go technical.
Duckduckgo.  Privacy minded, but with AI now.  Not as good as Google, unfortunately.
Qwant.  Don't use it that often.  It uses Bing as a backend, as you may have discovered.
Mojeek.  Don't really use it.  I have it in my search bar.
Perplexity. AI search engine, really.  So if you don't like Google stuff now, you'll hate it...  But I use it, sometimes.  I find it has its uses.