I really missed the days when Yahoo! was the first choice search engine, the results were hand picked by human, limited but really relevant. Then came google, t

I really missed the days when Yahoo! was the first choice search engine, the results were hand picked by human, limited but really relevant. Then came google, the results were much richer but relatively inferior, however still acceptable. Years later, Gmail was out and I immediately expressed my interest and got invitation directly from Google. Unfortunately, Gmail did not workout for me. From the very first day, I started receiving spams. Note that it's a new id which I never used anywhere. Then I asked for the function to reject particular senders, and the responses I got were always something like "our spam filters are good enough, blah blah blah". Wasn't feel confident with that, so Gmail was never my primary email. I felt not quite right with Google since then, but not quite sure what was wrong until recent a couple of years. Googles' recent moves such as trying to blend in Ads with search results, trying to block Chrome API access for Ad blockers' etc. made it clear that it's almost if not already time to ditch Google. The only thing I cannot find a substitute is the search engine, the others are simply not good enough.