There are still a few options. I recently had the idea of doing search engine queries on 9 search engines.

Mojeek is a good independent search browser, it isn't the best but at that Hackernews comment/analysis I was doing I found it to be the only one which worked for that case.

Brave exists too.

I know the situation is very critical/dire tho but there is still some chance. All be it quite small.

Mojeek IIRC, is operated by one single guy for 15 years.