Google started getting really bad about a year ago

It might be my localization, but it doesn't seem that bad to me, and I generally use duckduckgo. But forced localization is enough.

I‘m using searx.be most of the time. Safari wont allow it so I got confronted with ddg being down today. Still only use google if something is unfindable (mostly niche computer stuff).

The last few months have especially been bad.

I love when I search for a movie: New Life (2024) it'll give me IMDB results. I hate IMDB so I change my search to: New Life (2024) TMDB Google will give me the TMDB result as the first result and IMDB as the second result but it also has the did you mean "New Life (2024) IMDB" as an alternative search option. Makes me wonder if Amazon (which owns IMDB) is paying Google to push IMDB. Makes me feel like Google is trying to gaslight me.

I use !g if I'm searching for local stores around me but that's pretty much all google search can do well. Oh and images but ddg images are good in most cases.

Always.

I think SearXNG is best.

I don't see much AI stuff on Google yet but most searches there now give me only video results for some reason, with no way to opt out of them and get text results. It DDG fails me I just give up now.

Startpage (has Google search results) or Google with private browsing haven't given me the new AI suggestions so far

I use 4get.ca

A couple years ago I began getting frustrated. Last year I started to first go to Bing, google as failsafe. Now I gave up on everything so might as well go with Ecosia. When I NEED something, I'll go with bing/bing's chatGPT.

I went to StartPage personally.