I’ve often felt the same as you, and I think there is room to disrupt google in this area: a search engine with an API, and a search engine that covers the “dee

I’ve often felt the same as you, and I think there is room to disrupt google in this area: a search engine with an API, and a search engine that covers the “deep web” (not Tor, but content that is not currently indexed, like a lot of content in apps). FWIW Bing has an API.