I used to just use Google but add reddit to the end of the search, and it'd usually pick up several relevant posts/conversations that would have the answer I wanted somewhere in the comments. I'll still keep doing that for a while probably, but given how reddit has been going, and with people erasing their accounts, I doubt that will last long. I'm holding out hope for a good search functionality on lemmy, since reddits own search was pretty unusable.

I use DDG and think it does a great job, at least as good as google these days. There are certainly times that it falls short when compared with other search engines, but at that point I just use bangs and that effectively solves any problems I have had with it.