I've been using non-Gulag search engines for many (5+) years now.

Some of my favorites are:

https://freespoke.com/

https://www.startpage.com/

https://swisscows.com/en

https://www.mojeek.com/

https://gibiru.com/

https://alchetron.com/

I also use Grok and Perplexity

https://x.ai/

https://www.perplexity.ai/