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I append the word "reddit" to most non-technical google searches. Platform has been around long enough that _someone_ on it has discussed the issue I'm looking for
For whatever topic I'm interested in, I'll search reddit to find where the hardcore fanbase is. For example, if I'm interested in flashlights, that would be candlepower forums.
The echo chambers have grown to substantial epicenters now. Give me a search engine that finds those and puts search in it and I'd pay $5 a month for that because at that point, you've found the expert and active community and looking at cutting edge knowledge bases. I suppose it's what the academic and scientific communities used to be before subsidies and blue church ruined it.
Ads are hidden for me, so I just get the results and usually when I cannot find something it's just because it doesn't exist.
What kind of things are you looking for? I've been using Kagi (a paid search engine with a free tier) and quite like it but tbh it is only marginally better than google at the moment. I've also been trying to ask questions on forums more when I can't find answers (or blog myself) that way people in the future can find the.
Kagi used to be fine. It gets its results from Google, though, and recently it became much worse than Google. I'm back to Google and having a rage aneurysm every time it refuses to respect my quotes (which is always). NLP is the worst thing that ever happened to search, other than SEO and content farms of course.
I append the word "reddit" to most non-technical google searches. Platform has been around long enough that _someone_ on it has discussed the issue I'm looking for
For shopping I use Geizhals, Idealo or huge sellers like Digikey.