Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google DeepMind, Gemini, and all AI products at Google, said Google AI Mode will be the default for Google Search "soon." He said this after Google made google.com/ai go directly to AI Mode's interface on Friday afternoon.
My motto is: If it’s free, you pay with your data. And I really have trust in Kagi.
Ecosia, Startpage, Qwant, DDG doesn’t feel very different to me and they all are doing an okayish job. But everything’s better than google.