The point no one is making in these comments is: How is search so good? I've tried to implement search on small websites and always failed miserably. Results were always terrible no matter what library/database/indexer I used. I cannot even imagine how one would proceed to implement search over the entire internet.
I also have the experience that Google is much worse the some years ago, I'm also frustrated by everything, but still, it does the job much better than anyone else probably -- otherwise someone would have better results overall.
(Also, yes, I use DuckDuckGo and I don't think it's so much worse than Google, which is good, because I used to think no one would ever be able to do be as good as Google but today there are many competitors that come close.)
I also have the experience that Google is much worse the some years ago, I'm also frustrated by everything, but still, it does the job much better than anyone else probably -- otherwise someone would have better results overall.
(Also, yes, I use DuckDuckGo and I don't think it's so much worse than Google, which is good, because I used to think no one would ever be able to do be as good as Google but today there are many competitors that come close.)