metacrawler with uBlockOrigin (adblocker) on Firefox is not bad

https://www.metacrawler.com/

Use "Add search bar in toolbar"

install "Add custom search engine" addon

Make metacrawler the default search

NASTY TRICK GOOGLE DOES WHEN YOU HAND TYPE IN A URL

If google is your default search engine,

it will take your hand typed URL and run it through their engine

and spit back their version of it.

DON'T HAVE GOOGLE SET AS THE DEFAULT DEARCH

metacrawler with uBlockOrigin is not bad

https://www.metacrawler.com/