Thats disturbing even happens when searching from Europe so its a global manipulation of results. At this point I have started to tell everyone i know to avoid google products.

The question is any of the other search engines any better ?

I use DuckDuckGo primarily and hear good things about Kagi on HN, but haven’t used it much myself.

DDG is fine I suppose, although my most frequent use case of looking up (nearly wrote “googling”) code solutions is mostly handled by ChatGPT these days.

I've started just running models locally for the most part. If I want an apple cake recipe written in the speech style of Stalin who is OpenAI to deny me.

I like presearch.com wholly because they are too young/small to apply these sorts of filters, the results feel "raw" in a good way.

I have no affiliation with them and dislike their cryptocurrency based snake oil. But as far as a search engine that hasn't been tinkered with and is free, not bad, and I recommend them on that basis alone.