[AlotOfReading]

DDG and brave have been my default search engines for the past couple years. Despite that, only 2 of my last 10 or so searches weren't followed up with !g.

Take the last search ("bronze patina thickness"), where I wanted to know how thick a typical bronze patina is. The first brave result is a hardware store in Spokane (not even my state!) that sells door latches. The rest of the page is SEO content about watches.

The first result on Google links a paper and the results excerpt tells me 40-50um, up to 70um with prolonged exposure. The performance still isn't close for me despite the clear decline in Google search quality over the years.

[knoebber]

Results from https://kagi.com/search?q=bronze+patina+thickness

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patina

2. https://www.adamsbronze.com/bronze-patinas/

3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/patin...

3a. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23524...

4. https://www.corrosionpedia.com/important-facts-you-might-not...

5. https://www.accurateimageinc.com/CutMetals/Finish_CutBrnzPat...

[kevin_thibedeau]

DDG has been falling down in the past week with "no results" showing up frequently for trivial searches.

[lcampbell]

Are you using the no-javascript version (“HTML” version), by any chance? If so, you might find the “fully-featured” version has better^W results, at the cost of requiring Javascript and all that entails.