It used to be that I could take whatever was written on the PCB of an ISA card, or remember a handful of misspelled English words of a song from an old anime soundtrack, put them in a search engine and immediately find out which card was that, or what songs those words belonged to. No matter how obscure the topic, a very specific bit of information would yield exactly what I was looking for. That doesn't work anymore.
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@gabrielesvelto I suggest kagi.com - pay a smallish fee to get search results ad free and (in my experience) really pretty good on relevance and cover
If you stop and think about it, the idea of being able to sift in a fraction of a second through almost the entire breadth of human knowledge is an extraordinary ability. It was a truly amazing tool, a significant step forward in human development. How was it possible that a handful of misguided C-suite executives managed to effectively destroy one of the most powerful tools that we had to deal with knowledge? It's insane if you stop and think about it for a second.