Agreed! Also, I don't quite understand this discussion. I'm very satisfied with Google search. True, sometimes you need to ask for "verbatim" results to prevent it from interpreting the terms of the query too much, and sometimes it's more efficient to restrict the search to some sites if you already know which ones are more likely to have an answer (which is, not often).

But Google works very well. Competitors like Bing, Duckduckgo, Qwant, etc. are really bad by comparison -- and I don't know what I would do better even if I had infinite ressources.

Search on a specific site is likewise much better on Google than on said site; if you want to find a family of products on Amazon it's much more efficient to search for it via Google images with site:amazon.com; same for Alibaba, etc. And those are companies that one imagines has the ressources to build good in-house search. Yet they don't, or can't.