I have tried not to use Google, but I always come back.
Results from Altavista, Bing and DuckDuckGo are so much worse.
Note, it's not that Google has personal information on me. I'm not logged in, my cache is cleared, I use a VPN and google.com/ncr when it was available. Not sure how they do it. Perhaps their tracker sees how long people have visited a page and then they give those pages higher priority.
Perhaps other search engines can do a better job, but they had over a decade to improve their results and they are still far off.
Results from Altavista, Bing and DuckDuckGo are so much worse.
Note, it's not that Google has personal information on me. I'm not logged in, my cache is cleared, I use a VPN and google.com/ncr when it was available. Not sure how they do it. Perhaps their tracker sees how long people have visited a page and then they give those pages higher priority.
Perhaps other search engines can do a better job, but they had over a decade to improve their results and they are still far off.