Google has definitely gotten worse in the past few years and it’s fucking impossible to find any articles or news or academic papers or anything on any topic that doesn’t fit the opinion of Washington or Langley.
Anyone have any recs on what else to use.


Agreed. It works well but I wouldn’t “trust” it per se, especially over a long timeline.
tbh I’ve only used someone’s promotional invite code to try it for free and haven’t paid for it since that code expired, but if I weren’t too poor to pay for search I’d consider it.