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If you're pissed off at FB for collecting your data, just remember that Google is doing that as well.
Give DuckDuckGo a try.
@mbbrown well, since #ddg is just another commercial and centralized search engine I'd rather suggest #searx https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ "our" instance being https://openworlds.info/
@mbbrown Or also try Qwant.com which has similar policies as DuckDuckGo.