The answer is to STOP using Google Search which has become increasingly user hostile over the years. The sad truth is that Google Search 2024 can’t even compet

The answer is to STOP using Google Search which has become increasingly user hostile over the years. The sad truth is that Google Search 2024 can’t even compete with Google Search of 10 years ago. The problems: 1. First page of search results is entirely made up of Ads and blogspam 2. Impossible to do specific searches now that Google ignores Boolean instructions 3. Google Search is spyware, posing as a free service, sucking up your PII to profile and target you Solutions: 1. Use another search engine. The competitors have become surprisingly good. I use search.brave.com but DuckDuckGo and even Bing are better than Google now. 2. Use an LLM instead. I use Perplexity.ai for 95% of searches now. It combines an LLM summary with search results and includes footnotes to sources. The best part is that voice input is 10x better than raw ChatGPT and Google as it auto-corrects using context from your query. Other LLM search engines also work but Perplexity.ai have nailed the experience IMO.