Far from it, search sucks nowadays. Just think about how hard it is to find stuff from Twitter, reddit etc, even though that's where most of the content is.
And if you don't know what you want exactly, you can't find anything.
Google is a public service to search the internet. This product and thread is more about adding search functionality to other applications and private data.
And if you don't know what you want exactly, you can't find anything.