I agree, but how many have works that people are changing their lives over. Someone might be sitting on the best new battery idea the world will see for 3 generations but get no attention or funding.

I think that a “solution” could have that “so obvious” bias like you’re saying. I don’t think that natural phenomena necessarily has to though. I remember many ways that physics and other sciences describe how systems behave being obvious to the point I knew the lesson before it was taught (just without the correct terminology). Density, leverage, heat conduction, etc were just describing behaviors I think most people understand through experience without needing a class. We still credit a guy getting hit with an apple as the “discoverer” of gravity. He just got the clout for something everyone already knew.

To be fair, duck duck go also has some garbage results compared to like 2015 google. I have used ddg for the past several years and many topics yield terrible results. I was “the good googler” amongst my peers at the time. I haven’t tried qwant, so it might be better. A lot of search engines are worse and I’m guessing it’s partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.

The other problem is that you wouldn’t put a rate into a rate. It should be 7 in 100k without a percent. The percent doesn’t need “in 100k”