Kagi.

The downside is that it costs $10 per month.

The upside is:

• Privacy first
• You can pin websites to the top of results, promote them so they appear higher, demote them so they appear lower, or have them completely removed
• Lenses - quickly tell Kagi what type of results you want (News sources, academic articles, forum posts, programming sites, small web, etc.)
• Snaps - search shortcuts kinda like bangs. Eg, typing @w is the same as typing site:wikipedia.com
• An actual good AI summary. Completely unobtrusive - only activated when you press the button, doesn’t overextrapolate your request, and will only source the same results that you get from the search
• Direct image results

When I first migrated a couple years ago, it was a bit worse than Google but pretty close. Nowadays, I find it to be much much better. It’s honestly close to how Google was back in 2015 before they made it garbage.

Kagi’s summaries are great.

They’re hidden by default, requiring you to click the button first. They don’t extrapolate too much. And their sources will be the exact same links you got from the search.