So would search engines specializing on a certain field be the replacement? Search engines tweaking their code to a niche like astronomy, code (DuckDuckGo), fa

So would search engines specializing on a certain field be the replacement? Search engines tweaking their code to a niche like astronomy, code (DuckDuckGo), fashion, classical music, etc. Because Google has started to fail as a general search engine. Then again the abovementioned hypothetical search engines would be as much suspect to fail-by-SEO. Anyway, niche search engines as a replacement to the traditional publishers. Just thinking aloud.