This has been a a tough one, Google gives all ad-focused results, and DuckDuckGo gives crap results (imho)
I did find Kagi recently but they charge after 100 free trial searches, and I'm considering paying for it because it's so good. Best results I've gotten anywhere in a long time.
Thanks!
I love this, reminds me of when I first found StumbleUpon and the OG Yahoo that was a hand-curated directory.