Around the same time, I also discovered sengine.info, Artado, Entfer, and Siik. By sheer coincidence they all were mentioned to me or decided to crawl my site within the same couple weeks. So yes, from my perspective there have been more than a few new smaller engines getting active on the heels of bigger names like Neeva, Kagi, Brave Search, etc.
I first discovered Alexandria in early February: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one/commit/935b55f10f9024ee...
Around the same time, I also discovered sengine.info, Artado, Entfer, and Siik. By sheer coincidence they all were mentioned to me or decided to crawl my site within the same couple weeks. So yes, from my perspective there have been more than a few new smaller engines getting active on the heels of bigger names like Neeva, Kagi, Brave Search, etc.