Web searches now are terrible. It doesn't really matter which search engine you use, for a lot of search types, the results are just bad. This isn't entirely surprising - history has rewarded user-hostile behaviour, and the interests of search providers are typically not aligned with their users (HN discussion, pagerank is over).
The best and most interesting sites I find to read I typically find via a link from another site I like (webrings anyone?) or via a comment somewhere like Hacker News (which I suspect often come from a site that another user frequents, so pretty much the same thing).
To that end, here in no particular order, is a non-exhaustive list of other sites/blogs/other web stuff that I get some enjoyment from.
Low Tech Magazine Probably one of my favourite sites - I love old or obsolete tech. I really enjoy the detail into which he goes on seemingly mundane topics.
Casey Handmer's Blog Another blog with a lot of detail on topics I wouldn't automatically dig into. I particularly liked this post about SpaceX's Starship.
Alex Harsányi's blog Great source of well-written posts, primarily about Racket's GUI toolkit.
Solène's blog Primarily quite short OpenBSD workstation related tinkering. Real-world day-to-day problem solving, which I always find interesting, though I'm not an everyday BSD user.
The Tildeverse. A network of pubnixes aiming to bring back the community of the internet of old. A couple of examples: cosmic.voyage (collab. sci fi), tilde.institute (OpenBSD). Related: SDF.
Tim Hårek's blog usually has some interesting articles and links, and some interesting ideas on blogging/web presence in generel. It is the first site I found the idea of the explicit "open invitation" for blog contact.
1MB club, 512kB club Found via timharek.no. Lists of personal sites focussing on small size. They remind me of Tildeverse pages, and (from what I've seen so far), tend to be content-focussed sites rather than the junk so prevalent on most of the web. Related: [Marginalia][marginalia].