The only one I know of that you can pay to use is #Kagi, but that is an #AI company from the very beginning.
I've been having good luck with #DuckDuckGo for a few years now, and ever since Google #enshittified/nerfed their search results, I no longer fall back to google for hard searches.
@Mojeek is absolutely worth a try, and my good friend @amin created #clew (https://clew.se) which is an open-culture-and-fediverse-first search engine that's definitely worth trying!!
It does, yes. My task for today is to set up a development blog, after which I figure my next task will be a fedi account.
I'm thinking of giving it it's own GtS instance. Or try to set up Tahake, which has multiple-domain support, to host all my projects' accounts.
Ha, must've misremembered it.
Easy enough to do, it's not a name you'd see a lot of, and it sounds right either way.