Very reactionary, but an index built by an SEO toolkit sounds like the worst experience, ever. Isn't SEO the thing which broke online search to begin with?
> Isn't SEO the thing which broke online search to begin with?
I'd say that was maybe the case in the beginning where spamming meta tags in your page made you rank well.
These days I feel like there's also benefits from the technical SEO front where search engines prioritize pages that are fast, work well on mobile, have correct meta information, don't load large images, pushed the adoption of https at the beginning etc.
The only downsite is that it's slower than DDG and Google.
[1] https://yep.com/ [2] https://ahrefs.com/