It doesn't take millions of dollars to start a search engine.
Like 90% of my searches are for the same couple hundred Web-sites, the index could easily fit on a $400 SSD drive.
We need more smaller specialized search engines, ideally "open data" ones you could clone to your local NAT server. Only use general purpose search engines when necessary.
[–] Guy_Justsome 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Some Google alternatives listed here; haven't evaluated any of them yet.