I default to DDG (have for years) but the results are typically so completely useless that I switch to Google most of the time. Google results are usually only

I default to DDG (have for years) but the results are typically so completely useless that I switch to Google most of the time. Google results are usually only slightly better than DDG, and this is aggressively worsened by Google's extremely user-hostile experience (for this particular user), but sometimes that's sufficient to get me where I'm trying to go. Rapidly reaching a point where I'm best off searching Reddit and hoping what I want was mentioned there at some point and turns up in a result, but they also have a user-hostile (for me) experience, subpar search, and an ever-increasing amount of plain gibberish noise to sift through. I'm basically at the "The web was better before Altavista" point.