Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don’t respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.
I’m not ready to pay for search, yet.
Is there any alternative?
You can go old school like me. I just keep a list of trusted sources. Like I work a lot with SpringBoot, so I add “baeldung” to my search. If I want to look up a vacation spot, I usually add the name of national television’s vacation review show, because they always give good advice and have been doing so for over 20 years.