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?
Yandex for searches that go against the Current Narrative.
Millionshort.com removes the top one million websites from search results, so you'll find more niche links.
Google can be useful with search operators. Filter out websites by adding a minus sign in front of the name. Adding an operator to only search Reddit usually yields results ["site:http://reddit.com"]. A typical Google search for me these days looks something like:
site:http://reddit.com best video game -youtube -amazon
Sad i need to type out so much to crap to get halfway useful results, but it works.