I'm actually surprised people still heavily use Google search.
Not for some tech snob snark reason, but because it's unusable.
I only ever go back to Google if I'm really desperate, and I can't recall the last time it ever delivered me a result I considered useful.
It's all SEO AI spam, and those are the web results Google returns only after all of its own AI and shopping bloat.
Completely useless.
I mostly use DDG, but sometimes searx.
Startpage returns similarly dubious results as Google, but with the built-in proxy functionality and no clutter, so it's also in the rotation.