I liked Kagi enough to use it as my default search engine back when I was regularly employed and could justify ten+ bucks a month for a boutique search engine. I don’t know how they plan to survive though, given that they use Google’s indices extensively. Google isn’t exactly going to let another company eat its lunch.

From what I’ve read on here the people that use them like them. If you value your privacy enough to pay for a search engine you’ll probably like it. I believe I’ve seen Kagi mentioned the most