I have received so many recommendations for Kagi - I gotta check it out. I'm happy it exists.

One note worth pondering about in the future - it's almost as if the web will (finally?) turn into this bifurcated thing where one class of people (those with money) can afford better, faster information versus the other class.

Nothing inherently wrong with that - it's how the world works in almost all other ways. But it's an interesting note because so far the web was mostly pure democratization - everyone had the same experience on Google, etc.