I use ddg as my entry point for any search, using bangs to Wikipedia, start page as a google alternative, Reddit, images. Google results are sometimes better b

I use ddg as my entry point for any search, using bangs to Wikipedia, start page as a google alternative, Reddit, images. Google results are sometimes better but most of the time, I find search results heavily biased towards “social platforms”, commercial and otherwise SEO’d resources. Old content is just hard to find, whether it is a prominent news paper article, a niche personal website, etc. I don’t know how this search engines rank their results today, but I would pay for a way to filter out « big names » out of the search results and explore this long tail set by published date, etc. Use cases are very different between « searching » and « researching ». I want a research engine :)