A new search engine to check out, awesome! There are a few human-curated search tools like this, focused on the human-scale web;
I can imagine a future where every community operates one of these. For example by dumping any links shared using their fediverse service/ web forum into a moderation queue, to be added to a search index. Then federated search being built by Web of Trust relationships between communities. Global search made sense on the early web, but spam, phishing, SEO manipulation, etc, made it expensive to operate and unreliable, and Trained MOLE vomit is probably going to be the nail in the coffin.
#HatTip The last 5 of the sites listed above I literally discovered while looking for the first 2, mostly thanks to a blog post by Andrew Doran.