It's not really any better in terms of the results it serves up.

If it had a filter to only show pages that didn't have cookie popups then maybe I'd look at it again.

The sooner a critical mass of people start use alternatives then the sooner Google will start changing their behaviour.

Don't forget, so will the alternatives :)

Why clean anything because it just gets dirty again?

Install the 'I Don't Care About Cookies' browser plug-in.

Searching for “how to fix a flat tire” gave me good results, at least better than the crap the OP got :)

It’s not more useful. It’s less annoying.

I've been using Kagi for search and it's much better than DuckDuckGo. As much as I like DuckDuckGo, I think I'll stick with Kagi.

And Tutanota, Protonmail or Posteo instead of Gmail.

It's just Bing under the hood so doesn't fix anything, unless you say Bing is actually better.

At this point I actually think it is. I believe that DDG does tweak the result they get from Bing, and mix in a few other sources. Still, even if it is just Bing, then yes, Bing is now better than Google.