I greatly prefer an engine like DuckDuckGo or StartPage over Google because of Google's practice of stuffing so many paid-preferred results at the start of their listings - sometimes nearly the entire first page being thus consumed. IMO, over the years, Google has become virtually useless for getting rapid and meaningful results because of such commercialization nonsense. Another key trick is to be as creative as possible in trying multiple search terms in different combinations, whatever engine is being used.
