I am sure there is a good reason for this. I am looking for alternatives to google, and these to be the ones that pop-up most often.
RESOLVED: I used up my 100 searches in kagi pretty quickly, and the experience was really nice. I am quite anti-subscription, so I won’t continue using it. I eliminated brave from my search due to the crypto stuff and whatnot. I am now using mojeek, which gave me better results over DDG when searching for niche stuff. Also I like mojeeks interface a lot more.
I didn’t know about Mojeek leadership, I only recently discovered.
I access Qwant NP from Waterfox with hardened settings and extensions to block a lot of stuff.
Ecosia does currently use Bing & Google data for results (building an index with Qwant), but the data is anonymized/does not build personalized profiles while still creating value and funding for the company.