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I'm no expert, but dreaming here - is there a FOSS search engine that can be run in a distributed way by a community? I would happily switch to that if there was.
No, but we can build it. It's called a Directory. This is how Yahoo! worked before it got enshittified and eventually replaced by Google search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory
even netscape/mozilla was in on this game, with the open directory project (dmoz). aol eventually shut it down, but it apparently lives on independently as curlie.org - but i have no idea how current it is or anything.