Its not so much about the removal of google for the sake of privacy for me. I think part of it is the way that google caters answers to you, and in a very weak way setting off your mind into a feedback loop of your own proclivities. We get developer version search results from google and that can be a good thing, but so do the flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers.

We are polarized in part because google has become omniscient, but when we go there seeking answers, we are told different things.