I have done the same thing. My default search engine is now duckduckgo. Changing the default theme to blue/green (upper right corner) made a huge difference.

I have done the same thing. My default search engine is now duckduckgo. Changing the default theme to blue/green (upper right corner) made a huge difference. I don't know why duckduckgo uses a black and gray color scheme that essentially does not distinguish between link/site/description. Makes the results appear very muddled when they are, in fact, usually comparable to google.