Google is a fine search engine.
So, until a better one comes along, Google's search is fine for me.
If those two don't apply Google is often pretty much useless, just giving you low quality/ AI spam blog posts, useless ad-ridden product comparison sites and marketing pages.
There's a reason why adding "reddit" to Google searches has almost become a meme now.
Why do people always jump on 'umm Google bad' trends? It's all well and good to say it, but as someone who hasn't ever experienced this (apparently common) problem before, I would like to see to believe.
Don't get me wrong, I still find anything I search for, on page 2-N
I switched to duckduckgo about 5 years ago and look back occasionally.
DDG simply works better for me. I find what I search for usually on page 1.
Just to put things into context: I don't care about google, meaning I have no beef with them. I used google search for many years until I switched the default engine, simply because the search results for how I search got worse over time.
I still miss the ability to use "".