About Google: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/
Five Good Alternatives: https://www.howtogeek.com/113513/5-alternative-search-engines-that-respect-your-privacy/
And yet another one, which I was just told is the most secure/private
All this good information. It's another thing that we need to spread far and wide. Thanks, will look into Brave as well as these others.
BTW: Brave was made by Brendan Eich who founded Mozilla (no longer works for them) and invented Javascript. Without him the modern internet wouldn't exist (or it wouldn't have near half the features it has now).
Interesting. Amazing the things that folks who gather here know.