Ask HN: How does one search in search results?

I've lost interest in the Internet. I don't search for anything, and the two-three sites I visit are on their way out too.

I used to be able to find stuff. Type in some words from the page you imagine exists, and watch it come up.

That does not seem to work any more. Search engines of today act like I'm talking to them, asking them questions and such. I vaguely remember a similar MS Clippy thing, very helpful, yes. Not.

I don't want to talk to a computer. Why would I want that? That tech is crap still.

Neither DDG nor Gøogle return the full results for a given query. But they present it so as if they actually have it.

How can I ask a search engine to search over it's own search result set? Or alternatively, how do I get past the Self-inserted Smartypants Interpreter to give it some literal chunks of text I want to be found on the page?

Someone working for the SE companies reading this, do you know anything about that?