[DanBC]

I want a search that works for Usenet news. Yes, I understand that Usenet news is dead, but still, effective searching would be nice and Usenet search has been broken for ages and ages.

Another example is targeted search. For example, if I'm searching about mental health stuff I do want good quality sources, I don't want tabloid gossip about celebrities going into rehab.

Or sometimes I want to break out of the SEO trash, and have a bit of serendipity. Search for a term like [spectacles cases]. You get a lot of shops selling pretty much identical cases. What you want is a nicer way to preview those shops (because often the websites are god-awful and their own site searches are much worse than anything Google provides.) WAIT: I just tried this to make sure I was right, and Google have changed the way they show results like this. You get the same ads at the top, with heavily SEOd content links below, but now at top right there's a "shopping" section with links to different cases in different shops. So, that's much better now than it used to be.

Still, serendipity is fun. I remember when you used to be able to use Google to noodle around and find cool stuff. Now? Not so much. That's not Google's fault. The modern web is very different to what it used to be, but it'd be great if there was some way to get access to those smaller sites.