I am sure there is a good reason for this. I am looking for alternatives to google, and these to be the ones that pop-up most often.
RESOLVED: I used up my 100 searches in kagi pretty quickly, and the experience was really nice. I am quite anti-subscription, so I won’t continue using it. I eliminated brave from my search due to the crypto stuff and whatnot. I am now using mojeek, which gave me better results over DDG when searching for niche stuff. Also I like mojeeks interface a lot more.
Brave is some Crypto-Bro stuff, i’d go with DDG or Kagi. At some point you could get a Junk-PC and run SearXNG on it
Still you wont build your own index, but you will pay for other api which will be behind SearXNG. So question is, what is the point here?