Seen that one on HackerNews, I bet they're missing a bunch of aff sites as they're not rendering the pages.
I'd suggested on the HN thread a solution is a bunch more search engines, at least there's then some variation in results potentially. Looks like edge are somewhat into the idea
https://www.techradar.com/computing/microsoft-edges-new-search-feature-has-me-genuinely-considering-moving-over-from-chromeI've been liking the idea of 'pressure groups' forming their own algos. Something like Google's index since every other is lesser, but the algo is defined by cohorts you vote for. So if I like Th3Core's ethos, it positively influences the algo of stuff Th3Core likes, for me. Add in more groups etc, take your pick. Add a Pagerank type thing to the groups and their followers.
It does seem like there's more complaints about G quality and their index is the best that's going. Maybe the pendulum could swing back to human curated content? Problem then is how those places get found.
Alt search engines invariably have a hard time given bot whitelisting, MITMs like Cloudflare defining acceptable activity and large sites only allowing the likes of G to crawl them at a speed to keep up to date with their content.