Could be. What do you recommend besides Yandex?
As far as I know all search engines are kiked. I use Yandex and will keep using it until something better comes up. I'm kind of past caring what they might have on me or not.
I've been testing Freespoke(https://freespoke.com/) and sometimes use Webcrawler(http://www.webcrawler.com/). There's always Captain Caveman(http://websearchpro.captaincaveman.nl/?id=search_engines&subid=browse&index=A) and Start Page(https://www.startpage.com/). I really would like to make my own webcrawler, but I'm not sure I can pull it off and need more storage too.
The only unkiked ones are Searx instances, but they're rather inconvenient to use.
There is nothing good, personally after yandex became nearly unusable I switched to brave search.
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