It depends on how you’re searching and what you really need.
Google is still perfectly fine if you already know what search result will be, e.g. you search for some popular website to find url of it, or someone’s online account.
Google is frustratingly unusable if you have a problem literally 5 people ever had and there IS an answer somewhere on an obscure blog or reddit, quora, etc.
First 5 links on every query is ads, next 10 are SEO cites with very generic or even AI-written not useful garbage low-effort content. After first 10 queries google starts losing context of your search and suggesting you almost random nonrelevant links.
I’ve been lately using AI search engine phind.com for all my searches and it’s good. It is obviously hallucinates a lot, but instead of reading the prompt - I often find useful the links it cites. For non-technical questions I use metager.org, because it has a setting to filter out certain domains from your search results.
It depends on how you’re searching and what you really need.
Google is still perfectly fine if you already know what search result will be, e.g. you search for some popular website to find url of it, or someone’s online account.
Google is frustratingly unusable if you have a problem literally 5 people ever had and there IS an answer somewhere on an obscure blog or reddit, quora, etc. First 5 links on every query is ads, next 10 are SEO cites with very generic or even AI-written not useful garbage low-effort content. After first 10 queries google starts losing context of your search and suggesting you almost random nonrelevant links.
I’ve been lately using AI search engine phind.com for all my searches and it’s good. It is obviously hallucinates a lot, but instead of reading the prompt - I often find useful the links it cites. For non-technical questions I use metager.org, because it has a setting to filter out certain domains from your search results.