> Personally, I want to be able to search ALL THE THINGS even if it means that I sometimes have to wade through more crap
Yes, yes, yes, yes, this please! Google used to still have this in the first half of the 2000s or so and it was glorious.
Truly having the world's information at your fingertips. Not just Wikipedia and some high ranking sites, but as your queries got more and more specific, you'd still get results from increasingly strange and dusty corners of the web. Yes that meant you had to evaluate the value and trustworthiness of results yourself (but really, you still do), and it was so very much worth it.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, this please! Google used to still have this in the first half of the 2000s or so and it was glorious.
Truly having the world's information at your fingertips. Not just Wikipedia and some high ranking sites, but as your queries got more and more specific, you'd still get results from increasingly strange and dusty corners of the web. Yes that meant you had to evaluate the value and trustworthiness of results yourself (but really, you still do), and it was so very much worth it.