> Maybe because Google is actual trash and it went from being the best search engine to being an SEO-infested desert of a search, where your query is interpreted however they want not how you want.

Agreed but tbf... every major search engine seems to suffer from the same.

I cannot recommend enough the 'ContextSearch web-ext' extension. It lets you easily search using any search provider. I constantly (1) highlight text (2) right-click (3) select search provider (from youtube to reddit to bing) (Note: my default is DDG):

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextsearch...

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/contextsearch-web-...