On a tangent, google seems to turn up lot more obnoxious Quora results rather than reddit ones. Anyone find that to be the case?
Kagi's "noncommercial" lens, search.marginalia.nu, and engines that don't parse JS (e.g. Mojeek) can add some variety. Another thing I like doing is adding phrases like "creative commons" to already-long queries to filter out some corporate results, or adding `-gdpr -ccpa -"sell my info"` to limit results to sites made by small orgs and individuals who don't collect enough data or make enough money to warrant compliance measures.
I am starting to suspect that there might be nothing to find.
I just don't think people (other then the tech oriented) are creating websites and running forums - and why would they? Reddit might be be only place you _can_ find that type of content. What should search engines do then?
With a tiny number of exceptions, it might be that people chat on reddit, read Wikipedia, ask questions on the stackexchange network/Quora, local communities use facebook groups, and businesses have a wordpress site with nothing more then a bit of fluff, a phone number and an email address.