I know Google search has gone down the shitter... but it's still far and away the most useful search engine I use. Every now and then I try to use bing or ddg or whatever, and they waste so much of my goddamn time I just run the same search in Google and get something usable on the first page of results, even with all the kludge.
At this point I'd rather pay for a search engine if it meant better searching and no ads.