This has bothered me for a while now, even DDG is getting increasingly less useful. Google works if I want to buy something, that's about it. But finding any k

This has bothered me for a while now, even DDG is getting increasingly less useful. Google works if I want to buy something, that's about it. But finding any kind of news or actual information, particularly about incidents in the past, often feels impossible past some Wikipedia article. At least until narrowing down the date range for the search to escape most of that SEO that just adds whatever you search to make it top of the list. But even then, on certain topics going back years sometimes yields very weird results, where it feels like there was some kind of purge that only left certain outlets as "valid sources". Which in practice means the web has become very good at forgetting, as often it's near impossible to rediscover the article for some headline from a decade ago, it's just drowned out by all the SEO if it never made any big waves to begin with. Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle, that's what a lot of these results often seem to boil down to, and it's bluntly depressing.