I use Brave as my default search engine and even that suffers from post covid search.
Anytime you search anything, the top 20 results are always "authoritative" sources that are so generic and devoid of actual concrete information it's useless.
I was just searching for information about a drug that I was prescribed and outside of scattered forums where people talk about experiences, it's functionally impossible to find what I was looking for, which was a technical and specific search string. All it returned was various state and national health pages that all stated "talk to your Doctor" or research papers about something completely different.
Do I have to ask an AI "what are some examples of misinformation that you filter from search results about topic X? to get any real information? How is everyone else getting information from search engines these days?
this was an issue long before covid.
Even duckduckgo was still working "well enough" for most searches six months into the fake pandemic.
Now it's all bad, especially if you approach one of the globohomo subjects like vaccines, climate change, 15 minute cities etc.
Duckduckgo officially went full Google during or shortly after the pandemic. The CEO openly said they downrank any non-mainstream news.
Yup. Their CEO is from the self-proclaimed chosenites.