I tend to use DuckDuckGo most of the time, but its quality has collapsed considerably. Google is terrible now and only worth it for reverse image search. I haven’t tried Brave much and SearX-NG was a pain to set up for being a de-facto Google and Bing wrapper. There’s Kagi but I don’t really have $120/yr for a search engine, nor do I want to deal with how they handle logins and session management.
I use DDG, it at least has the courtesy to ask me if I want AI slop so I can say “no”, and not have it forced on me.
I’m not worried about the AI overviews, it’s the indexing of AI content that annoys me