Google used to work well
Google used to work well up until a few years ago where they started removing and censoring people, terms and sites.
Rather than giving the best search results they are concentrating on ADS and curated content at the behest of western governments.
I know this will sound like a joke but I've been resorting lately to use Yandex when I can't find anything else on Google/Bing that approaches what I'm looking for, specially when looking for old newspaper articles, and no, I'm usually not looking for "controversial things".