Some fraction of searches are things you do over and over again and finding specific strategies that bypass the search engine are helpful:<p>(1) Some programming languages such as Python and Java have good manuals. Learn to look up answers in the manual instead of looking them up on Google which puts you at the mercy of Stackoverflow and the other spammers.<p>(2) The least used feature of web browsers is the history -- you see people crashing their computers and driving themselves to distraction with 50 tabs open because they don't know or don't believe they can look things up in their history... (Don't manage tabs -- close tabs!) If you avoid spam sites, your history is a clean good place to search.<p>(3) In certain domains there are good search engines. arxiv.org is a good place to search computer science, physics and math literature. Pubmed is a good place to look up answers on medicine and biology.
There are some search engines that respect your privacy.
<a href="https://www.ecosia.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ecosia.org/</a>
<a href="https://www.qwant.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.qwant.com/</a>