If you know anything more about these search engines or if you know of other good ones, please comment.
Blekko https://blekko.com/
Sort of curated. Uses "slashtags" to refine search. Various privacy options. It has ads (so they say. I have ad blockers that seem to be filtering out the ads) but you can choose not to see them.
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/
Metasearch engine, includes Google, Yahoo, and Bing results
Includes sponsored listings in results. Also has ads. Includes web, images, videos, news, yellow pages, and white pages search modes.
DuckDuckGo http://duckduckgo.com/
Positions itself as a search engine that doesn't "bubble" you (filter your search results based on search history) and doesn't track you. Has an option of a "red box result" at the top of the page that includes a definition of your search term. Has an ad at the right side of the page. Gives 10% of its income to Open Source projects.
Scroogle SSL https://ssl.scroogle.org/
This is not so much a search engine as a few privacy guys (e.g., Daniel Brandt, who runs google-watch.org and namebase.org) thumbing their nose at Google, scraping its results and delivering them without ads. The name comes from a Cory Doctorow story. It's a non-profit and contributions are tax deductible in the US. The interface is ugly as sin. Something about it warms my prickly geeky heart. No ads. "no cookies, no search-term records, access log deleted within 48 hours"
Ixquick https://www.ixquick.com/
Startpage https://startpage.com/
Ixquick is a metasearch engine based in Europe. Startpage is affiliated with Ixquick, but returns results from Google only.
Both have https option. Both allow you to generate a URL that stores your settings instead of
using a cookie. They have ads at the top and bottom of the result page (so they say. I have ad blockers that seem to be filtering out the ads). Web, image, video, and phone search modes.
Edited to add I crossposted this to
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https://googlealternatives.wiki.zoho.com/
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