> from a quick search online

I would have agreed with you a few years ago. But now Google, DuckDuckGo etc. at most provide 3 pages of results, with many irrelevant or wrong. There are alternatives:

https://wiby.me/ https://clew.se/ https://kagi.com/

But that's not the majority experience and more importantly, it shows that it really can be "taken" from us.