[nefariousoctopi]

Oddly, the google seems to be working much better for me if I use whole sentences (How to..., Where can I...). This is really annoying.

I am using DucDuckGo as there is currently no better alternative. It is not great, but it serves its purpose. Also, you can add "!g" before any query. This will search on google instead :)

[Alphasite_]

This matches my experience, keyword based searches no longer provide anything of value, but natural language sentences lead to far better results.