There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones.
Google’s monopoly on information, with 93% of the search market.
They do not control the information of the world, of course, but control the access to it
https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-01/the-world-needs-cliqz-the-world-needs-more-search-engines.html
