[micromacrofoot]

>Anything academic, search on specific websites or Google Scholar. Anything technical/coding, search on StackOverflow. Anything cultural/commercial you want a peer answer, instead of a salesman answer, search on Reddit

This is a completely miserable experience, and walls off useful information into classes of people who "are in the know" about where the most relevant information exists.

And if you're that grandma searching for a birthday present for your grandson? Good luck. She's likely to be devoured by ads, if not an outright scam.

[Reuzel]

They asked for searching tips, not how to solve the problem of internet search. I have a few ideas for that too though.

Agreed on the miserable experience. Do you have any ideas on how to attack this? Perhaps Google started out with the right experience, but ads eventually toppled it. Perhaps Google never hit on the right experience. What gives?