I've said it before, but it's really exhausting how shitty search engines are these days compared to how they used to be

@caitp

The whole search engine system has been enshittified as they try to suck more money from people.

@caitp Have you tried Kagi? It's paid , but ad free and no tracking. You can up-rank, down-rank, and outright block results from certain sites. It's a few bucks a month I'm happy to spend.
@Dalton @caitp If it works for you now, 🤷, but it's not at all long-term viable. They either don't have their own index at all or only slightly do while supplementing it with scraped Google and/or Bing results, and their ideology guarantees they will only enshittify not improve.