Must be. I had difficulties with it at one point, and I ended up living at the URL from some search results and was able to figure out what it wanted. I thought the missing slash might have been your issue.

Try:

https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s

I think Qwant is as close as you’re going to get unless you can set up searchxng to do what you are asking.

Now, you might be able to get better diversity in results if you use a vpn to move to more diverse or contrasting cities.

I often find news sources external to the US to be very interesting insights to what we see rammed down our throats.

Daily driver: Qwant

Niche searches: kagi

Not privacy friendly— Ai: perplexity.ai

Ahh, got it. That’s a feature I never used.

Do you need an email for it? I thought you could still use it without being logged in.

Qwant and kagi have been a great pair. Brave search was good, but they had some controversy a bit back.