Seriously though. Five years ago Google already became unusable without "site:reddit.com" which is actually hilarious for a search engine that's supposed to search the entire internet. Nowadays reddit is also shit, which means that the only use case for me to use Google or any search engine is to find products that for some reason I don't want to buy on Amazon.
Internet isn't a global village, it's a global ghetto, and it's becoming increasingly true that the only way not to lose is not to play.
The old internet is still there. It hasn‘t gone away; it‘s just undiscoverable with ad-based search. The more slop there is, the more necessary it is to have good search engines.
Recently, I set up a fresh system on a laptop. Ahahahaaa, how utterly crap Google search results now are! It fills me with some stress and disgust to use that. Now one of the first things I do, right after emergency using duckduckgo to search for uBlock Origin and NoScript, is to get Kagi search installed as default search. Then I can continue setting things up more calmly.
