Being the best search engine barely means anything at this point. Unless you're looking for something very specific that you know exists like documentation, or

Being the best search engine barely means anything at this point. Unless you're looking for something very specific that you know exists like documentation, or are looking for an opinion on reddit that hopefully isn't astroturfed, you're probably going to find garbage. The issue is the internet just has too much garbage now. The SEO arms race has generated an insane amount of bot-generated garbage, mobile devices have made the internet is so accessible that it's filled with people generating garbage. It's garbage all the way down. Have you ever watched a 0 view YouTube or TikTok video? I end up with them in my feed every once in a while and check them out and it's always garbage. And this is MOST of the content on these platforms! Back in the mid-aughts, YouTube was new and it was still somewhat novel to plug a camcorder into your computer and upload a video file to the site. Now every 8-year-old is walking around with an iPad wirelessly connected to the internet, and a YouTube app with a giant, idiot-proof button to start recording a video and upload it right from the app. It blows my mind how much server space and bandwidth is being dedicated to host and transmit all this garbage around the world.