Swami

My other pet peeve are all the live links to out of stock items, but that's just laziness, not intentional obfuscation.

duckduckgo

Restricted to decent search engines:

I used to use ScrubTheWeb a lot, but they closed last year and became a directory. If you're interested in directories, I'd suggest Curlie, a successor to DMOZ.

I use Gigablast fairly often, but usually the results are only OK. The engine has links to Google, Bing, and Yandex tho, so you can re-run the query on those engines. Gigablast does have fairly good support for advanced queries, which Google seems to have given up on.<...