Add your site to Google’s search index and Bing’s search index. Most other search engines use one of their indexes. It can take a few days before the site starts showing up on Google/Bing/other search engines that use their indexes.

There’s a bunch of ways to optimize seo other than wait for more people to link to your site, but they won’t have as much of an effect as just having a more popular site with more incoming links.

There’s a fork called searxng that is still very active

There’s a fork called searxng that is still very active