I am absolutely not affiliated but you should seriously consider giving Kagi a try. I was increasingly frustrated with all the NLPness and operator deprication

I am absolutely not affiliated but you should seriously consider giving Kagi a try. I was increasingly frustrated with all the NLPness and operator deprication in google which has been accelerating since at least the 2010s. But with Kagi it reallys makes me feel like I am back at the wheel. I think for product search it still has some way to go but for technical queries it is just on a whole other level of SNR and actually respects my query keywords.