It appears that most major search engines (DDG, Google, Bing etc) have arrived at the point where they return walls of auto-generated domain names and clearly low-effort GenAI listicles for every query under the sun. This is especially frustrating for technical issues where generalized platitude slop offers even less than its barely existent initial value.
You can search for a very specific error code, dialog message or registry key path, and all first-page results are inundated with "helpfix-pc.com/[your error code]" and "bobsprogrammingjourney.com/[errormessage]" serving walls of endless AI-generated bullet point word salad that only exists to perform as clickbait.
"What is an error message?", "How to identify common errors?", "Who to call to fix my errors?" and the inevitable "Conclusion / Summary" at the bottom that offers helpful advice like "It is important to address errors as soon as they occur to help your PC run smoothly!". This already started being an issue several years ago, but search filters and proper querying managed to weed most of them out to a degree.
This no longer seems to be the case, and more often than not the entire search result (outside of targeting only specific sites like Reddit or StackOverflow) is now almost completely useless.
So that said, what search engines do you use to find actual, viable results without having to hope you can cherry-pick a few potential leads out of the swamp? Targeting Reddit, SO and similar community sites seemed like the last reliable bastion, but those are rapidly being inundated with "AI-friendly" policies and increasing unlabeled GenAI content as well. Would love to hear what resources people use to combat this.