If you're being served google's basic search page, duckduck is head and shoulders above the lame google offerings. I use duckduck, but occasionally I slip the

If you're being served google's basic search page, duckduck is head and shoulders above the lame google offerings. I use duckduck, but occasionally I slip the search query back to google in the hope that the switches I use to use heavily with google, might perhaps work ... most of the time I'm disappointed and yeah that's why I moved. Quoting rarely is noticed, and no longer works as it should, verbatim selected removes timing of results, if I edit the url as I used to quite often, I'm now met ... was met with google's "you are a bot" ... was as in I don't see that page any more, but nor do I get to continue. Google is handy for working out what some shortened youtube link is though. Google no longer searches images from me, so that's now yandex. Qwant is still about, and might find additional material. Startpage removed their advanced search but it still searches though. At the very end if you still haven't found the right answers, try Searx.