for the non opinionated, duckduckgo with an adblocker has served me just fine for the better part of a decade.
you can simply set the search as you like and save as a search url [1] that can be set in the browser once and forget.
their bangs are useful to search directly in a specific site (e.g. useful workaround for reddit search results not coming anymore). when i tried kagi, i noticed that they have adopted a similar system, which has to be inspired.
my overall search experience has been poor even before the GPTs, but this is just fine for almost everything.
you can simply set the search as you like and save as a search url [1] that can be set in the browser once and forget.
their bangs are useful to search directly in a specific site (e.g. useful workaround for reddit search results not coming anymore). when i tried kagi, i noticed that they have adopted a similar system, which has to be inspired.
my overall search experience has been poor even before the GPTs, but this is just fine for almost everything.
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/settings/params