In my tech circle, almost everyone has switched to another search engine (ddg mostly, startpage, bing), which is quite telling. I noticed as I spot them in a search result page while together, not because they told me. This was an eye opener.
I initially _had_ to because the search itself became unreliable for me (finding technical terms is now a frustration in quoting and checking for "missing from the page: term"), but other search engines (like ddg) are not better in this area. Issues with AMP links though made me permanently switch the default search engine entirely.
I now use google as a backup, reluctantly and in combination with others, exactly how I was using altavista and yahoo eons ago.
I would have never imagined this would happen.
But if I ask _any_ other non-tech person, google is still the only search engine they know (or even don't know) about.
I initially _had_ to because the search itself became unreliable for me (finding technical terms is now a frustration in quoting and checking for "missing from the page: term"), but other search engines (like ddg) are not better in this area. Issues with AMP links though made me permanently switch the default search engine entirely.
I now use google as a backup, reluctantly and in combination with others, exactly how I was using altavista and yahoo eons ago.
I would have never imagined this would happen.
But if I ask _any_ other non-tech person, google is still the only search engine they know (or even don't know) about.