Yesterday I was looking for downloadable Word / Excel templates for a certain kind, and wondering why Google wasn't showing me what I KNOW exists on the web.
In exasperation I went to Bing.com. In first few results, it showed me exactly what I was looking for.
Google say they give us what we want, but my story demonstrates that Google now show what they want us to find.
Couldn't help but notice they were significantly de-ranking search results about a competitor's file formats vs. their own. They know I'm looking for DOCX / XLSX files.
Ultimately this is good. By using multiple search engines now, I feel like I'm using The Internet again.
Google is a censored and corporatised filtering of the web - not the web.
This is insane...but it's 2020, and I'm going to check out Lycos.