No, in case you wonder, we haven't changed our minds.
Kudos for doing such an amazing job.
I wish we were to have a truly independent search engine, free and with no AI nonsense.
We can't have a web in our terms when the big search engines are getting us less and less genuine results each day, even these are buried by AI nonsense, and are soon to be scrapped.
This may not be what you are looking for but have you tried Mojeek or Marginalia Search?
AFAIK they are both mostly independent search engines with little to no (AFAIK no) AI integrations
The only catch that I have noticed is that searches from them can be pretty spotty from time to time. But with Vivaldi search shortcuts that shouldn't be too much of a problem
If these do not fit the criteria you mentioned then I apologize.
@jgg @Vivaldi
You're welcome! Glad I could help!