I ask because I’ve been doing a lot of research the last few weeks and Google search has really let me down. I’ve been finding better results on DuckDuckGo and Bing. Is this a recent thing with Google or am I out of the loop? Any other search recommendations?
Edit: In no particular order, some recommended alternatives to Google
SearXNG
Whoogle
Ecosia
Brave
Dogpile
DuckDuckGo
Kagi
Swiss Cows
Qwant
Bing
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It doesn’t crawl the sites itself, it just parses the rusults from all the existing search engines and combines them.
Ask Google and Bing to index your site.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289#request_indexing
https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/url-submission-62f2860b