I've been using Yandex and Baidu recently.
Sure, they censor as well to their usual audience. However, The quality of search respectively is actually quite good. I usually get at least 4 relevant results, whereas google is 0.
The caveat is US based searches google still works best in, like 'where is restaurant or business'.
But for general material, google lost me 2y ago. I grew tired of the dumb games and bad irrelevant garbage shoveled instead of search results.
Sometimes I search for a whole sentence, e.g. the title of a video I know to exist, and it doesn't find it. Then I look for a vague sentence related to the video, and with some luck it finds it.
It can't be quite that, given that I've searched for exact phrases I knew exist on StackOverflow, and that Google no longer brings them up, but other search engines do.
Google's poor search results drove me away years ago, so I wouldn't know if they changed this since then, but one of the many things that drove me away was that Google search refused to admit when it had no results and would instead just start including blatantly irrelevant results.
They’re superior at finding shops on Maps.
But for common search, they’re mediocre and untrustworthy, hiding real results way down below irrelevant spam.
Who trusts an advertising company with search?